I really enjoyed this book although, I'll concede, I really needed to enjoy a book right about now because work is beginning to rear its terrible head and that means stress cannot be far behind. So I turned to this because it was recommended to...well Twitter at large by Kate Elliott and I liked Elliott's alternate Britain with magic.

This was different, although in a good way. I enjoyed the adventure and it was the kind of steampunk that I like - there's magic and there's technology and people wear goggles and that's it. It's also epic fantasy with world saving and battles and espionage and it's a trilogy and I've given myself permission not to do any work for the rest of the weekend, so stay tuned for the next book in the series...