Lost Future of Pepperharrow

This is very good and a great follow up to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. That book and The Bedlam Stacks are both favorites of mine. My enjoyment did not quite reach that level with this one, but I did really like it.

The audiobook is especially good. If you like audio, I recommend it for her books, because the narrator makes a lot of insightful (and plot-related) choices with the accents. Most of the characters in this book are Japanese, and he did different British and American accents for all of them, I think to try to capture aspects of their characters. I felt this worked really well.

Mild spoiler I had some trouble identifying with Thaniel, overall. The depth of Mori's love for him seemed obvious to me, but he doubts it for most of the book. The structure of the story makes me think I was supposed to be a little frustrated with him. But I don't know.

The author really has fun with all the SFF concepts here, and this one feels more science-fiction-y than her other books. I don't know if she will return to this world again, but I hope she does. Either way, I look forward to reading her future books.