I'd like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for a chance at reading this.

I enjoy my fantasy / airpunk stories. I liked the combination of flying warships and humans / fantasy creatures. Reminded me of Treasure Planet.

However, I only made it 20% into this book before dropping it. There was... a lot of nothing going on. One hand you got a lot of character information, but the characters weren't really grabbing me. They didn't really scream interesting or the plot itself didn't seem interesting. I also felt that outside the military aspect, you really don't understand the world they live in, its people. Everything is confined mostly to the airship.

I somewhat dislike books where all the action is confined to one spot, because you rely on the characters to make you forget that they can't move anywhere. However, when the characters themselves are boring what can you do?

3.85✨ rounded up.
This book completely snuck up on me.
You can tell that the authors spent a lot of time building their characters - they are all so unique, in the absolute best way. The found family is extremely heartwarming.
I would say that this book is action packed. I cried at 14% and I kept thinking : I can’t believe I’m crying right now! 14% is so early to be so attached to characters.

I’ve rarely read a pirate based High Fantasy - so this was a nice change. IMO - this is also Epic Fantasy. The stakes are incredibly high.

The world building is well done, though I will say that the strong suits of this book are 1) the characters and 2) the unique plot and storyline.

From 1-50% something is always happening - then it slows down a bit between 50-80%. It was mostly well balanced but sometimes it was a bit overwhelming, to be quite honest.

I loved the ending a lot. It wrapped up the story beautifully and I’m excited for book 2.