Review: HIGHLY recommended!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
I picked this up almost reluctantly. It was advertised as "steampunk" (a genre I'm only moderately interested in). On the other hand, it came with a fairly strong recommendation.Wow, am I glad I went with the recommendation!  Strong, well-developed characters, interesting story, well-written, everything you hope to find when you open a new book!I tore through these first three volumes and started buying and downloading the rest of the series immediately.___(For what it's worth, I would not consider this steampunk. Dropping a few steam-propelled machines into a fantasy universe does not quality it as "steampunk" in my view. That's not a weakness of the books at all--just to say that those of you who like fantasy but aren't into steampunk should not pass this series up because of the description.)