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This is retro-fantasy that really feels like retro-fantasy. It takes its world-building very seriously, and mostly that's a good thing except the last half of the last chapter is this mind-numbing infodump about the creation story and cosmology of the setting. It mostly avoided that and just introduced things as the characters encountered them otherwise. It also has a ~20 page appendix in the back explaining the world, which I didn't bother reading.
Anyway, not a great book. It had a lot of interesting stuff, but it didn't hang any of it together that well. It's very episodic, and doesn't spend very much time in the protagonist's head, so I never felt all that invested. It's not bad (ignoring that last chapter), but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're really itching for serious, old-style fantasy. I would still consider reading other books by the same author even though this didn't really do it for me.
I didn't find it overly difficult. It has a lot of furigana and the writing flows well. There's a lot of fantasy terminology of course, but if you've read plenty of fantasy it's nothing outrageous.