The Bone Ships

This is a 3.5* rating, the 4th is because I'm curious about the sequel. And that's despite the fact I wonder if the editor slept while reading it...

I loved: the pirate/fantasy setting, the bone ships built on the bones of slayed sea dragons, Lucky Meas (what a brazen, badass Shipwife???captain???she is), the fact that Lucky Meas is experienced through the protagonist narrative and totally steals the show, the weird fantastical creatures of this world... The guillaume especially.

I loved the plot.

But as mentioned, some editor must have not paid much attention. As an example: too many cases of “the the” or “and and” or some other tiny word repeated unnecessarily... The pacing was too slow the first half of the book. Also something about lack of structure when this new world was presented to us.

It felt very flawed in some places. It's important to say, that despite of it, I genuinely enjoyed this book. Like a rough diamond.