I. Had a hard time with this book. Which is really depressing because I wanted to love it. And conceptually, I do. All the elements are really fascinating. The steampunk and the airships and the zombies and the world building... but it never hooked me. It was a chore to read. The prose was dense and I found myself slogging through it. I finished it in these last two days because I just wanted it to be over. And that's a sucky feeling when you're reading something. 
 So it's all really too bad. Because I should have loved it, and I wanted to love it, but it just didn't do it for me.