5

That's my first attempt to read something of steampunk. When my favorite author decided to change genre of his books there was no choice for me. I was afraid there were a lot of techical termins in this book. I was right but those were not too hard to understand. This book is mostly about characters than technics. And it seems like Butcher read Douglas Adams. Oh, no, there's no plagiary or something but sometimes there's the same madness. Of course in the finest sense of the word. Mad etherealists, speaking cats and ships...make the atmosphere of this book a bit strange but so amazing! I think the brightest character is Rowl, kit of Maul, lord and master of the Silent Paws. That is a unique cat. I'm sure cats think the way Butcher wrote. Who knows may be if we can understand their purring we'll see they are exactly the same unbearable little beasts like Rowl, Neen and so on. But those beasts can act like heroes sometimes.
This book leaves readers with a lot of questions. Whose names are in the book Cavendish fought for? What will be with Mistshark and her crew? What will be the next mission of the Aurorans? What will this war bring for Cavendish? And the main question is whether the future from Folly's dreams come true.