Really enjoyed this and hope there will be more soon!

I started reading this story with high hopes, and Carriger somehow completely topped those hopes and dialed them up to eleven. The story is sexy, and at times explicit, but it tells a beautifully touching story of gay love, self acceptance, and getting over one's own tragedy. It also wonderfully displays the extended families that we create out of need and want. All this would be enough, but it's also amazingly funny, in her typically witty conversational style. The fact that she also spins a fantasy tale that connects to her other works, makes this genre-busting, Queer story the best thing I've read in a long time.

This story had everything you could ask for. A sassy character who tell it like it is and a reliable character who finds it charming and it hot as hell. The story had a good pace and was never slowish. Very sexy scenes are in the book. But the love is there that grows with the characters. I would love to read more about the characters in this book. A MUST READ SERIES. I WANT MORE PLEASE!

Could have used more storytelling vs sex scenes. Byteellbeeon July 20, 2017 The book has too many sex scenes at the expense of the plot and world building. I think the extensive sex scenes were well enough written, but tended to sound repetitive. It seemed like there just wasn't room left in the book to develop the plot or story more. There were so many plot points I wished were covered more: what is this mysterious Saturation event? What were the consequences? A briefly covered history of the destruction of the aethosphere (sp?) would have been very much more compelling story if developed in more detail. Why are there so many different types of mages and what are their roles; e.g., what does a Plug do? What is a Sluice? Why did Max initially fail as a mage? Do sumages and mages work outside of civic settings? How does the "familiar" phenomenon work? What was the role of Victorian or Parasolverse mages? Kitsune seem to have different magical powers than other shifters - why? What is the significance of 9 tails? Many of the father figures were presented as sadists and child abusers. What about that? Where were their mothers? Hey, Why no Lord Akledama? I agree with the reviewer who said this book is less well balanced than it could have been.

An utterly delightful story, or should I say tail? Witty and clever as always and just a lil bit spicy! Just try to stop reading once you've started, I dare you.