The Dragon Blood Collection, Books 1-3

I really enjoyed these books and was able to get lost in the story. Often with a series, there is at least one book that is inferior to the others. These, however, were all engaging and the characters were likable and the plots were entertaining. Don't read it expecting Dragons, however, as that's not what it's about.

Not just steampunk pirates!, but heart-of-gold, mad-scientist, dreadlocked, misunderstood, inventor pirates! Not just fighter pilots!, but pint-sized, feisty-grrl, assassin-grade marks-woman fighter pilots! Plus talking swords! Steam-powered dirigibles! Out-of-time sorceresses! Caves, jungles, volcanoes, and the bubbling taiga of death!!! Wisecracking screwball comedy humour!
If you dealt out all these narrative elements from the Big Deck of Big Adventures, I'd roll my eyes...yet in Boroker's adventures they work charmingly. Awww! What a fun escape. A quick, satisfying read. Witty and inventive.