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I finished By Fire Above and I feel as if I've felt for a bait and switch. The first book was pretty well paced and consistent action about airship combat in a Napoleonic Wars-like setting and it was pretty entertaining.

This book had 0 (zero) airship combat, despite being book 2 of the "Signal Airship" series, and instead placed the main characters on the ground for almost the entire novel. The first third of the book was dedicated to some stupid romance plot that never goes anywhere, though I presume it was supposed to be expanded on in a third book, and the latter two thirds are spent on the ground being shitty resistance fighters while the airship is only occasionally mentioned and barely featured. It was a complete disappointment of a sequel and I hope the author never puts out a third book since she's clearly missed what made the first one so exciting. I'd hate to see what nonsense she makes the next one about.