Seize Your Copy Steelhands (Havemercy, #4) Articulated By Jaida Jones Distributed In Booklet

So Jones and Bennett's writing has heaping spoonfuls of charm, which is what has kept me reading all four books even though I have serious problems with basically everything else about them.
But they're delightfully witty and often hilarious, their characters are fairly endearing, and they're quite skilled at writing setpieces individual scenes work very well,

Unfortunately, the scenes don't knit together into much of a plot, So much padding is spent on unnecessary levels of introspection and explanation that it takes forever to get to anything, and that's because the plot here is so very thin on the ground.
I think Jones and Bennett would be better served focusing on characterization and situation/setting than on plot, because it's not their strong suit, Particularly exacerbating in this book was the choice of Toverre as one of the four narrators I liked him well enough although I have problems with his character type, as I'll get to shortly, but he had barely any effect on the plot at all, and what effect he did have could easily be covered in Laure's sections.
Antoinette, for example, would've been a much better and frankly more interesting narrator than Toverre,

Which speaks to another very serious problem that Jones and Bennett have, which is with characters, Namely, with the inclusion of female characters, This book feels very much as if their editor said, "You know, you've had almost no female narrators or even significant characters in this series, maybe you should fix that," and instead of attempting to depict a more nuanced and interesting female character like, I don't know, Antoinette they went with the stock blunttomboy stereotype.
I have no problem with tomboys or blunt characters, but in a series with as many pervasive gender issues as this one it drives me absolutely insane that this is the best they can bring themselves to do.
They also have an overfondness for the stereotypical foppish gay man, a character they continue to use again and again with slight variation in fact, many of their characters can be easily placed into a few stock molds.
While they do make the characters convincing, I would also appreciate a bit more variation of type amongst them,

Despite my problems I still plan to read more by these authors, because I like their voice, but in all other respects their novels are deeply flawed.
Wellplotted YA of the reverberations of war and conspiracy, with a fastmoving chatty tone reminiscent of some firstperson urban fantasy, and Steampunk! Dragons! returnIts the fourth volume in the Havemercy series, but it works just fine as a stand alone the authors do a creditable job of weaving in enough back story to understand motivation and some action.
returnThe four main characters Toverre, a gay scholarship student from the country Laurence, Toverres female fiancé and fellow scholarship student Adamo a former sergeant and dragon rider now serving as a professor and Balfour “Steel Hands”, a gentle survivor of the disbanded dragon corps are engaging enough, but reveal the first of several severe problems with this work.
returnOstensibly, the narrative is a rotation of each of the four characters point of view, Yet the four voices sound exactly the same, Let me say that again, EXACTLY the same. In my humble opinion not having publishedbooks the narrative would have been far stronger in an omniscient voice if the authors cant do a better job of distinguishing the tone of voice.
returnFurther, the language is highly repetitive, and the story is full of anachronisms, Mind that Im quoting an ARC here, but “abruptly the city planning and even the buildings themselves ceased to make any kind of logical sense, They rose up around me like abstract paintings, . . ” por “Roy had about the same amount of good sense as a common house cat, but with less grace to stick the landing, ” P. returnEven with these flaws, Steelhands is worth reading, and these young writers have much talent, One looks forward to their growth as authors, Won this book on first reads, . .

I'll be honest, I couldn't bring myself to finish this book, I thought it was a bit boring and more importantly I was very confused, Because it's fantasy there were weird names used for people, places, items, etc, It was to the point that I couldn't tell if the name was for a person or place, The only reason I didn't give this one star was because I haven't read the previous books and can't totally blame them if I was confused, I had no idea this book was theth in a series, On the giveaway page it said it was a standalone novel, but I was still totally lost, . .

I'll review this later if I ever get around to reading the other books in the series, Maybe things will make more sense then :/ This is my last review due to the horrendous layout of the book page, I no longer find Goodreads a useful website.
I am

sorry that this will be affecting authors as I always like to leave my impressions on their books, especially when I think the book was great, as I think this one is! But Goodreads' forcing their 'mobile' bookpage design onto desktop users is simply lazy and irresponsible on their part.
Desktop users have voiced their 'dislike' that's putting it mildly of the redesign but have been ignored, Maybe if authors start complaining about it, something might be done, but from what I hear from my author friends, they cannot get support from Goodreads librarians when they see something on their author page or their book is incorrect and needs fixing.

Just tried to post my review and now I have to deal with a CAPTCHA! Horrible, just horrible UI

That said, there is my final review:

Audiobook review.
Narrator: Cornell Collins.

Wow, what a great ending to this series and I really wish this was not the end there is potential for the story to be continued.
I wasn't sure about the introduction of several new characters, but they caught my heart from the very beginning and I fell in love with all of them right away.
I had a suspicion as to what might be going on, but was truly surprised when all was revealed, Cornell Collins, as always, did a wonderful job of the voices, I stretched out my listening of the last chapter just to savor the book a little longer, knowing this was the end, .