Lost Future of Pepperharrow

This book exhausted me, so this review will not be the pages and pages worth it deserves.

The good
Thaniel

The bad
The plot is one guaranteed to make me hate a story unless it's handled a lot more deftly than this one was.

The ugly
The characterization of females, namely Grace and Pepperharrow herself. They are the same judgmental, horrible people.

The book gets two stars because of Thaniel and the first fifty or so pages, the last fifty or so pages, (except where Grace once again escapes all consequences of her actions like a karma Houdini that needs to be slapped) and about twenty pages in the middle where Thaniel is actually doing his job.

Side note: I would have happily read five hundred pages of Thaniel working as a telegraphist an going home to eat dinner with Mori and Six. That would have been a worthwhile book.

Also, the five years between the first and second books probably helped - as long as you don't reread them in the intervening time - because certain bits of plot were, in turns, suspiciously similar and didn't actually make sense.