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Harry has really levelled up with some extra power ups from Winter.

Now that the man was gone, Wen could only regret the beatings he had not inflicted himself. There was never enough time, even for the most conscientious of masters.

It's a hard life when you can't find time to beat your servants.

Rehab with Mab - Piranha fairies - and Demonreach

Very engrossing reading - though having a badass swordsman and son of king fu show up at the right time was a little too convenient.

Ok...nearly finished and we're still seeing new stuff...again. I think this is serious danger of earning 5 stars unless he totally stuffs the ending.

“That was when old Yeke lost three fingers from his right hand,” Chagatai continued. “It was Yesugei who found them in the snow and brought them back to him. Yeke saw what he was carrying and said they should be given to the dogs. Yesugei told him it would be better to tie them to a stick. He said he could still use them to scratch himself.”

This book is more steampunk than all the steampunk novels I've read to date - Not that I've read a lot of steampunk

I want a hunting Eagle

Ok, why not throw in some scenes straight out of the "Alien" movies. Who doesn't like things crawling about in the air ducts and popping out to drag it's victims into the ceiling before sucking out their brains or ripping out their spine.
phhht phhht phhht (That's my impression of Hannibal Lecter sucking on liver...Clarice)

It's taken a while for me to catch the Dark Tower parallels in this book. Spearpoint being the DT with the unstable zones = the beams and the instability does weird things to reality. And the "eye" etc etc etc. I get it. Or I'm just reading too much into it but Reynolds is a DT fan I believe going by his short story "Diamond Dogs" which has more direct and obvious DT references and parallels.

Zeppelin! And we're still rolling out new factions and variant humans.

So we have angels, Skull boys, carnivorgs, and now tectomancers - Reynolds just keeps rolling out the crazy this book.

It's Bladerunner come Mad Max

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming.

'Longing for a swaying deck under your feet?’ Tehol asked. ‘Oh, how I miss the sea—’
‘How can you miss what you’ve never experienced?’
‘Well, good point. I should have been more precise. I miss the false memory of missing a life on the sea.

After a moment longer he lowered his hands on to his thighs. ‘I just... wait.’
‘Our pet’s disenchanted,’ whispered Telorast.
‘That’s bad,’ Curdle whispered back.
‘We need to find him a woman.’
‘Or a child to eat.’
‘They don’t eat children, Curdle.’
‘Well, some other kind of treat, then.’

That's one kickin' Jamaican accent! Take it easy John Lee - don't give your vocal cords a hernia now.

I'm channelling James Marsters

Evil Bob is back! And bobbing!

Plenty of airship action. And steam powered jetpacks are cool.