The Iron Wyrm Affair

This was a highly imaginative, skillfully written, well-plotted adventure with great characters and a fascinating magic system (that I really never got a great handle on)...and it did absolutely nothing for me. I'm sure it'll attract a bunch of adoring fans, and probably deserves to, but I'm not one.

Sorry, Ms. Saintcrow, just not for me.

I am on the fence as to whether to continue is book. I should have checked out some of the reviews here when I bought the book but I was feeling whimsical and bought it based solely on the description on the back cover. What was not mentioned was the awkward, faux-antiquated language and slap-dash characters. If you, miss authoress, are going to build a new world wholly unseen before, give the reader a little context and clear description before throwing us headlong into your wonky little construct. “An exceedingly managing female” is the kind of dialogue that makes my skin crawl.

I abandoned this book over halfway through it when the dialogue continued to devolve into mock Victorian complete with wretched spelling. Ack!