The Court of the Air

"Everything was upside down. The police were killing people. A murderer was protecting him. Everyone he had half a care for in Hundred Locks was gone. As if he were sleepwalking, Oliver left the police station, closing the door on a huddle of sprawled corpses."

though interesting and very exciting in places, there was a level to this book that seemed to slip by me, somehow.

"Change, even at the end of all things, is the only real constant."

Nonetheless the ultimate battle was quite spectacular and you can see how one could grow into the protagonists. Good, but a little confusing. Maybe more of the series will help.

Somewhat hard going overall, the author, either deliberately, or by omission, failed to explain much of anything. On one hand this meant that you did get a good sense of observing a strange world, on the other hand it was easy to glaze over and wonder what on earth was happening. It started to make sense in the second half but by then the main characters had transformed from confused bystanders into major players without any difficulty.