An overall enjoyable read. At times a bit slow, characters were great and the storyline was engaging.

This book was okay, but a bit disappointing. I was initially intrigued by the characters and plot, and above all by the fictional city of New Pittsburgh -- with its alternate steampunk history of American industrialization -- but the early reveal of nearly the entire plot, via chapters from the villians' points-of-view as well as the various (way too numerous) heroes, resulted in a shocking lack of narrative tension. I found myself quite bored.

When the reader already knows everything that's going on, it takes extremely compelling characters and atmosphere to make the reader keep on caring, and this book is short of those things. The characters are too numerous to be fully developed in most cases, and the New Pittsburgh setting also fell short of its promise. What a missed opportunity!