I mean, I love this series, I just LOVE LOVE it. Steampunk + Adventure + Romance = Wunderbar! This book I think is even better than the last two in the series, but all three are up there. The world building and depth of character in these novels justifies everything I do with my book club, Vaginal Fantasy. I love highlighting books that don't get enough credit or widespread acknowledgment. I'm sure this one will be super popular on its own however, and it deserves it.

I don't want to spoil anything, but the hero in this book has tremendous physical challenges after a childhood accident, and has a lot of nano-tech equipment welded to his body, which is unusual but fascinating as a character study. The chemistry between him and the heroine, a very frank and naive airship crewman who is descended from a Valkerie-type enclave of women on this alt-world's Iceland (yes that typed out dumb but it's totally cool in the book!), is just amazing. They grow to love each other no matter what their background, without judgement. There is a strong lesbian-rights storyline as well in this that somehow fits organically into the world-building as well. It's just really well-done and I def urge you to try the series if you haven't. These characters don't continue from the last ones, so you can pick this one up and know what's going on, although reading the previous will help with world-building.

Just awesome!