I enjoyed this installment in the series for the same reason I have been having such a good time with all the others. The downside? I feel the tropes and quirks that make these books so good are wildly overused and exploited here making this book unnecessarily longer than needed due to extra repetition. I'll be pressing on but this one took me longer to get through for the fact it felt like I was going through the same motions over and over again. 3 out of 5 for The Ersatz Elevator!