I think I remember reading Liz Bourke's review of this and deciding it would probably be interesting, but not entirely my thing for specific things that Bourke herself found lacking and because I still have a complicated relationship with sff set in America. It's nice to be right.

This is one of those novellas where ALL I WANT is a nice, giant book set in this universe. Everything about it is so cool and interesting despite how much I find--for lack of a remotely better term--frontier AU to not be my thing. I absolutely get the style of novella that sketches out one story and one character's movement from point A to B set in a glorious world that is both clearly thought out and distant from the text. But I love meticulous world building so it's hard for me to just look at Desmond and Lij's story and their escape as insufficient. It would make a great beginning, but it feels incomplete as it is. Maybe there will be another one...