The Olympian Affair
Ratings12
Average rating3.7
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Ratings12
Average rating3.7
The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure in the New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defence and trade. Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war. Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon--one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires. A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents. It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion--assuming that it is not already too late.
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2 primary books3 released booksThe Cinder Spires is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Jim Butcher.
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A solid read, though perhaps not quite as good as the first, The Aeronaut's Windlass.
This one took me a while to get into. It's been a really long time since the first book came out, and I don't read enough anymore to spend the time rereading. Eventually I got my bearings and I enjoyed the book overall, but not as much as the first one. Maybe if they had come out closer together I would have enjoyed it more (or if I do a reread of the series sometime). I will still pick up the next book as I'm a huge fan of Jim Butcher.
I did the audio and I thought the narrator was excellent, in particular their cat voices.
3.5 stars probably, rounded up.
Butchers steampunk world lifts off
Second in his new series, this is a rollicking fast paced adventure novel which I enjoyed in my younger years but has I think gone out of vogue except perhaps for what is described as “young adult”.He deserves to be more widely read than he already is simply for the fun of a good yarn well told.
6/10
Kinda disappointing. I imagine someone waiting 8 years for this sequel and I'm just appalled. Half the book is people preparing for duels I found pretty uninteresting, and the character dynamics in this one are just...static? I'm not sure how to describe it. The cats are also much less charming. In general, the whole book just felt half-assed to me, which is a huge shame. The last 20% or so was really good, though.
