The Aeronaut's Windlass

I was...unsure about this book, to say the least. It felt like a bizarre mixture between Cats and Stardust. Ultimately, though, the threads came together and the plot became compelling. Butcher's treatment of women is still one-dimensional and problematic, but I appreciated the characters nonetheless.

I do feel like the book suffers from a bit of telling and then not showing—ie, phrases being used or inferred and never explained, but the universe is fairly simple and most things can be deduced from context.

A quick read, for its length. Excited for the next one.