The school year is over so let the Hugo reading commence!
The only reason I don't regret waiting to read this book is that I can now jump straight into the sequel. This book got all the hype and I have to say it was deserved. In the traditions of Martha Wells and Lois McMaster Bujold, Gailey crafts her world around the characters and then delights us as we watch them navigate that world. The point is to tell a great story, but the story itself has layers and peels back nicely.
And I just took book two out of the library, which, as I said, is the reason I don't regret the wait for this one. Excellent hippo cowboys, would corral again.