Review: Not as good as first book in series but very good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2013
A strong  female heroine in a male dominated society.  This series brings together a consistent set of rules and magic in an alternative history.  The plot is overly convoluted and several times you feel like the author is grasping for connecting straws.  Although I enjoy some intellectual challenge a slightly more straightforward approach would have benefited the story.  High society also seemed a bit shallow and quick to frame the French for their own errors in judgement.  This  left you with an odd sense of sympathy for some of the "villains".