Well, let's see: I refused to go to sleep until I finished the book, I nearly scared the dog by yelling at the characters, I got really excited when everything happened and I wanted to start singing Les Miz in the middle.
Probably means this was a good book, right? It was certainly everything I hoped for after reading the first one. The two books are very clearly part of an ongoing story, rather than a series where the same thing happens more or less each time in every book. And now I have to wait a-whole-nother year for the third. Woe is me.
Anyway, Wexler writes excellent flintlock fantasy. For me, it's as if ASOIAF and the Vorkosigan Saga had a baby and that baby inherited the secondary world, multiple viewpoints and some of the good/bad confusion from GRRM, but managed to get its writing style, memorable characters and sheer awesomeness from Bujold.
Yep, I'm really enjoying this approach to epic fantasy. Vive la Vordan!