I haven't gotten around to reading The Living Blade trilogy yet (although I have started Touch of Iron!) so may not have gotten all out of this novella that I could have.

With that said I did enjoy this novella, it had some great characters in it and the plot tied nicely to the theme. It felt like an exploration of a specific slice of the world so I was pleased to read in the final parts of the book that the main series does touch on this a bit more and show us more about some of the characters in this.