I very much enjoyed this from a world building perspective. I'm very much looking forward to the reading the sequel.
A few things bothered me about this though. Will try to talk about them both without spoilers.
Firstly, this book was on a list of books with ace rep and the ace rep was so slight (and I don't even know for sure if the characters I think were ace actually were) that it may as well not have been there at all. Side character rep is great, but I was looking for more than just a character who happened to be ace but where that was not explored in any way.
The other thing that bugged me was the (extremely quick and casual) death of a queer character. There was a lot of potential for that character and the relationship they were a part of in terms of conflict and growth. Their death felt unnecessary and I don't see how it furthered the story at all.