I have to say that this story didn't get me that excited. To be honest, I think a large part of that is because of the narration, which is some of the worst I have heard. The narrator is fine with the story itself, but his characters are just awful and it makes you cringe so much that it becomes unlistenable. If you ever wondered what a Lebanese/Scottish/Slavic accent sounds like, you'll hear it this story, just before it changes into a northern English with a hint of god knows what. He just failed to hold onto an accent and deliver clear definition with each player. The other big problem was that in trying so hard to create a character accent, he forgot all about inflection. There were moments of great drama and the voice came out as flat as my last souffle attempt. Saying "quick, we need to move before we burn to death" in the same way as you'd say "are those peas?" doesn't work and you completely lose the atmosphere of the story. 
 I was hovering around 2 stars until I changed to reading the story instead of listening. Then it dramatically improved and pushed it back out to a three. 
 There are some inconsistencies with the story that annoyed me, silly things like a father telling his son that family is everything, blood is thicker than water etc etc than happily watching one son kill another and praising him?! My other beef is that whilst our main character has a lot of shit happen, things still work out really well in almost every occasion. The characters he meets roll over to his golas way to easy and it seems that everything happens completely to easy. 
 Underneath all this, is a solid story. I like a lot of the other characters and would have preferred a lot more detail on the actual Dance of the Cloaks, which we are given very little detail, but has so much potential in the story. 
 Overall I am not inspired to read book two, i'll have to read other reviews to see if I can be inspired to jump into the next in the series. Overall, i have to say that this book did not meet my expectations. I wasn't to big on Brent Weeks either, so if you loved hi assassin stories you would probably enjoy this as long as you read and not listen.