Apparently few people on this board know what 'Grimdark' actually means.

"A tone shift that seeks to make a work of fiction more serious, cynical or gritty. In theory, archetypes which we are usually accustomed to acting in a more noble setting will have to act in one where they must think and act grimly in order to make progress, thus forcing re-examination of the tropes involved or the ability to use new tropes and expand the setting making for different sorts of characters and stories. In practice however, writers can be too lazy to make use of what most of those words mean and ending up randomly "spicing up" a work with gratuitous gore, cursing, and sex to make the work "more adult" - often overdoing it in the process. "

This is exactly what Fortune and Shadows as well as Burning Tides are, and it's in the wrong kind of grimdark. I don't see an expansion of any trope critique and the gore and cursing are nothing more than spice that can be considered poorly done at times. It actually pisses me off too much for me to read it in a single sitting. I'm of the firm belief that it is one hell of pathetic attempt at lore writing, but that's just me. If you're not convinced, read further into the link and tell me how the hell it's not.