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Finished The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu. It's an interesting world, but I just couldn't get into the characters. I would have liked a bit more description - several times I had to jarringly re-image some part of the world when a new (major) detail was dropped in the middle of an action sequence. Terms like vanahezhan, suurahezhan, dhoshahezhan, and jalahezhan are introduced cold, and the reader is left to understand what they are from thin wisps of context - those are all elemental creatures - but they're not used *enough* to really stick in the mind, and they all visually scan too similarly, leaving a muddle.

Two stars, and I'll pass on the sequels.