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I'm four chapters into Aeronaut's Windlass and so far... not so good. Hopefully as things move along, the characters will gain a little depth and the writing seem less forced. I remember the first 2/3 of Storm Front being blah, too. At this point, it's about 60% exposition interspersed with clunky, cliched scenes and equally cliched prose. The characters so far are just tropes being put through the motions. As pseudo-nautical works go, it's not comparing favorably to my recent listening of the Temeraire books. As whole-cloth fantasy, it's not comparing favorably to Codex Alera, either.
Again, I hold out hope that at some point the exposition will thin out and Butcher will find his footing with the characters and prose. In the meantime, the audiobook makes a decent soporific.
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