I love how the stakes feel low in a "this isn't 'The Hero of Destiny'" kind of way; the main pivot in the political intrigue is secretly resolved off page and is a result of previous work, leaving the more personal stakes to be resolved on the page satisfyingly. (The stakes are, on that personal level, high--we gotta get a witch's kidnapped wife back!!) Everything feels so soundly set in time and space and the characters, while previously critical in world changing affairs, are kept as simply people trying to do good for those they care for and take life one step at a time. It's tight in a water-tight, fully finished sense, but not in a "this is short and aggressively paced" sense (it's almost the oposite, what with it taking the time to give just enough detail about people and places to make you go "wait--what?" before moving on; it's Very Nice)
it feels big and small in all the right ways and I like it.