{"id":1035,"date":"2016-07-18T08:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2016-07-18T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:18:53","slug":"reading-aeronauts-windlass-by-jim-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/reading-aeronauts-windlass-by-jim-butcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass by Jim Butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cinder-Spires-Aeronauts-Windlass-ebook\/dp\/B00TY3ZKFY\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1468256360&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+aeronauts+windlass\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1036\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/reading-aeronauts-windlass-by-jim-butcher\/519t2wi7qgl-_sx329_bo1204203200_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/519T2WI7QgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg?fit=331%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"331,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Cinder Spires Series Book 1&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jim Butcher &#8211; The Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass &#8211; The Cinder Spires Book 1&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/519T2WI7QgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg?fit=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/519T2WI7QgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg?fit=331%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1036 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/519T2WI7QgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=120%2C180\" alt=\"Jim Butcher - The Aeronaut's Windlass - The Cinder Spires Book 1\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/519T2WI7QgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/519T2WI7QgL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg?w=331&amp;ssl=1 331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a> I loved the Dresden Files books by Butcher so I have now finally gotten around to starting his new series, &#8216;The Cinder Spires&#8217; and I&#8217;m about a third of the way through The Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is not an urban fantasy like his previous series (Dresden). This is set in a world where wooden ships fly through the air using some sort of levitation crystals. Humans live on spires that rise through a cloud layer below which human life can not exist. It looks like a Horatio Hornblower with magic setting. So far it is decent reading, but hasn&#8217;t grabbed me by the eyes and held me to the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the Dresden Files books by Butcher so I have now finally gotten around to starting his new series, &#8216;The Cinder Spires&#8217; and I&#8217;m about a third of the way through The Aeronaut&#8217;s Windlass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EWhb-gH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}