Rising up through the mist stand the Spires. Something has gone wrong across the entire surface of the planet, and it’s completely covered in a thick, heavy mist that is very deep and hides lots of nasties that live on the surface. It reads like a post-apocalyptic Earth-type world.
Worldbuilding was pretty simplistic in this first novel. I’d probably peg it as electro-punk, as the technology of the world runs on electricity, but steampunk is more the well-known buzzword. THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS ( Amazon) is the first of a planned nine-book series of fantasy novels by renowned author Jim Butcher that has been promoted as steampunk, which is somewhat interesting given the fact that that I don’t remember a single reference to steam in the whole book. I’ve been telling myself for more than a few months now that I needed to pick up this new series, because seriously how could it not be awesome? So,when I found it on audio book laying around at my local library, I checked to be sure we hadn’t already reviewed it and then snatched it up. I’m about halfway to caught up with it right now. Then fairly recently, I knocked out books two and three of the Dresden series because people would just not shut up about them… and I haven’t been able to get enough of that series ever since cramming another book in whenever I can. Perhaps preemptive, yes, but I think I’ve mentioned my tolerance level for good story somewhere. A few years later I read STORM FRONT and thought it was decent, but nothing to crow about. I tried his first book of the Codex Alera series and wasn’t all that impressed. I’m kind of a late-comer to the whole Jim Butcher Bandwagon.
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