A review by gnashchick
Breath of Earth by Beth Cato

4.0

Finished Breath of Earth by Beth Cato. It was a ton of fun to read and the characters were delightful. Geomancers! Selkies! Hidden Ones! Airships and clockworks, war and danger, near misses, bad guys, and total chaos. There's even a sweet romance with a touch of steam and I don't mean the airships. Cato added an addendum to the book with a brief breakdown between the actual SF earthquake and the fictional SF earthquake of the book. She kept many details of the historical disaster--little things like the opera our heroes attended before the quake--and when it came to the fantastical, she poured magic over everything. That was a nice addition, and I appreciated the amount of work that went into the novel.

Super glad that I have book two already because I want to hang out with all these wonderful characters for a bit longer, and meet some new ones.