More Benedict please!

This book was everything I dreamed a book about my favorite warriorborn, morally ethical cinnamon roll would be! After Aeronaut's Windlass, readers could no help but wish for more of the character's stories, particularly Benedict who's POV was not present in the first novel. This tale has so much action packed into a short novel.

If you have read any of the Cinder Spire's series and just want to delve back into this rich world, then I would highly suggest this novella. I love all of he characters in this series, but my heart holds a special place for Benedict. It was such a joy to see other Warriorborn characters and cats. It just builds perfectly off of the first book.

The only reason to not read this book is if you haven't read the first book!

I love this world so much and it was wonderful to come back to it with one of my favorite characters. Jim Butcher is one of my favorite paranormal author's and a lot of that is due to his world building and enthralling writing. This book was no exception and I will be screaming from the rooftops to my fellow readers to try this series.

This is a fast-paced novella in which 4 warriorborn are sent on a military mission. Problems and peril abound!
I haven’t read The Cinder Spires yet, but it has been on my TBR list for awhile. Even without reading it, I thoroughly enjoyed this short story. It felt complete and was well explained without any prior knowledge of the universe.
The characters were well defined, the plot was exciting, and now I’m really excited to jump into the novels!

Jim Butcher has continued to develop another fantastic character with Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster in this Cinder Spires novella. This stand-alone novella offers a fast=paced expansion to Butcher's Cinder Spires universe that doubles as a perfect quick-read introduction to readers who may have missed the start of this series. The story is a vibrant and punchy adventure where Benedict must deal with his new duties as a newly promoted Lieutenant, his past successes, and the future conflicts that could change the history of the Spires. The three new Warriorborn characters are given little time to develop, and yet, you can't help but find yourself drawn in and connected to each: Lady Herringford's utter ruthlessness, Jenson's impetuousness, and Maybell's self-importance. If you aren't sure if you want to get started on a series that has been slow and long in coming, but love Butcher's genre-mixing Dresden Files, give Warriorborn a chance to whet your appetite. I don't doubt you will go after the rest of the series.

Jim Butcher returns to his fun world where people live on huge spires because the surface is too dangerous. Lieutenant Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster is sent to recover military information from a spire that has gone out of contact. He has three Warriorborn (hard from Podium Publishing) convicts that he had previously arrested as crew. As usual there are monsters, talking cats and soldiers from an evil spire. Fun for a Novella and a short addition to a fun series.

This was a great introduction to the Cinder Spires universe, and a fast-paced story concerning a Warriorborn and the perilous mission he's given.

Benedict is summoned by the Spirearch himself and sent to Dependence to retrieve a Very Important Bag. Of course, this is not an easy task, so three other Warriorborns are going along. Except the three are criminals who were caught and put away by Benedict himself. The deal is, Benedict has to come back alive, and then the three will be set free.

Of course, this is not an easy drive-thru retrieval, because there are deadly things waiting for them in Dependence, and the whole team is soon in mortal danger.

*Thank you to the publisher for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.*

As far as I'm concerned, Jim Butcher can do no wrong.

He's such a versatile author. He excels at world-building and character development. He always plots such exciting books, but I feel like I would still devour his books if he described Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster or Harry Dresden going grocery shopping.

Grab this novella. It almost feels too short.

While this novel offers plenty of action and fast-paced storytelling, it also deepens character relationships and tensions within the Cinder Spires universe. Butcher’s has a talent for blending thrilling battles, charmingly characters, and a richly immersive setting that leaves just enough mystery to entice readers into the broader series. Great read, but not one necessarily for the classroom setting.

I requested this, thinking it was a new Benedict story, but it's actually something I've read already (maybe I should have read the whole description before requesting). The Subterranean Press edition coming out in December will be an illustrated hardcover, which I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on.
This is a short Benedict adventure that sets things up for book two. People who have already read book two will enjoy getting the scoop on Benedict's mission from his point of view.
I like Benedict a lot, and I enjoyed the alliance he formed for this mission. There was potential for sleaze with the "going into season" stuff, but I'm glad it didn't go very far. I wasn't a fan of that part of the plot.
Jim Butcher sure likes his kitties. I loved meeting another cat clan in this novella.

This was a wonderfully done entry in the Cinder Spires world, it uses the concept that I was hoping for and was hooked from the first page. I thought the characters were used perfectly and written in that way that I was looking for. It had that element that I was expecting and thought Jim Butcher wrote this perfectly.

I do enjoy an appetizer to ready my appetite for the main course of the next novel in a series and Warriorborn set my appetite in anticipation of the main course of the second novel in The Cinder Spires. This novella also filled two of the desires that I had after the first novel in the series, that is, I wanted to see more of Benedict and more cats. Benedict takes a central role in this short story and new cats are introduced adding further dimensions to the cat characters in this series. True to the prior novel, this is a fast-paced action adventure that reads very quickly. If the goal was to leave me wanting more, than it succeeded. To clarify, this story didn't feel incomplete, but I was definitely ready for the series to pick up the next novel where this story left off. I'd call it a great read for anyone who liked The Aeronaut's Windlass.
I received access to an eARC thru NetGalley (for which I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher, Subterranean Press) for an honest review. The opinion expressed here is my own.