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Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
4.0

3.5 stars.

This was a really fun first in series. I really loved all the world building that went into making Rotherweird, well, rather weird. I think a lot of the issues I had with it are kind of the traditional pitfalls of a first in series book. I struggled a little bit with keeping the characters straight, and the plot got a bit muddled in places for me, as they got bogged down a bit by all the world-building and history. With that said, I did think this was a really entertaining and original sort of modern-day steampunk fantasy, and I'm excited to see what the rest of the series holds!