TinaNoir's Reviews > The Guns Above

Read by the always wonderful Kate Reading, the listening experience was very well done.

I usually really enjoy this sort of adventurous military fantasy. I especially love it when an author can create equally a sense of derring-do and exciting decisive battles while also crafting root worthy characters and a comraderie amongst the band of brothers (and sisters) in the military.

I think this book maybe succeeded halfway here. The world building was great and while I enjoyed Josette and Bernat and all the rest of the crew, I didn't get immersed in the story or the characters like I usually like. There were lots of battles, but instead of the descriptions getting me pumped, they got a bit mired in some tedious details and in places I just skimmed over.

I liked the vibe of the book and I enjoyed the story when it moved away from the long, overly descriptive passages of the airship. I wanted to hang out with more of the crew and get to know how they really feel about each other and Josette and not have to see them only in snippets during a battle and being told how they probably feel about Josette from the scarily perceptive Bernat. Ad I wanted to feel how high the stakes of the battles were for them as well, nt just for Josette and Bernat.

So it was good, just not what I really wanted to this reading experience to be.