There's a lot to enjoy about Aeronaut's Windlass: steampunk tech, airships, privateers and pirates, post-apocalyptic sci-fi/fantasy... I should have enjoyed it more than I did, but Jim Butcher's prose is terrible. It's clunky and amateurish right off the bat. This book is easily the worst-written of his novels that I've read (the first Harry Dresden and the first two Codex Alera novels). 
 That said, there is a lot to like. The steampunk tech is cool and the world-building is promising. The characters are likable, even the frustratingly bull-headed Gwen Lancaster (whose clunky whole name is unfortunately the very first thing in the novel). The romance was kinda cute could have been adorably awkward in the hands of a better writer. It's a shame the writing failed to match up.