Reading Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass... seems a solid 2/5.

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Reading Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass... seems a solid 2/5. If you removed the fucking cats, and about 2/3 of the main characters, this might be a 3/5 - and about half the page count. The descriptions of aerial combat drag on, they are not that interesting, and neither is most of the dialogue between the largely exchangeable characters. The only people with some personality are quite mad (mostly Folly really, the other one I can't remember the name of because most characters in this book are not memorable). Did I already mention getting talking cats crammed into every orifice by the author? Not Butcher at his best. #books #bookstodon