A review by golem
Prosperity by Alexis Hall

5.0

QUEER SKY PIRATES. It's not a traditional romance, but it's wildly romantic. There's an opium-addicted, womanizing, impoverished Victorian lady who can see krakens. There's a nonbinary skyship captain who has some kind of condition that I can't figure out ("aetherstruck"?) that makes their eyes really black and rainbow-y. There's this background romance between a good guy and a bad guy that in any other book would be the main story but it's not here. There's a bunch of magic with rotting corpses, but not too much, and some excellent sex workers. Also obviously it's like, steampunk and in thieves' cant. Great audiobook. Lots of great sex and some very good Dickens jokes. Everyone is queer. 
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