Yasmin's Reviews > Imprudence

It took me two years to read this... I think that says a lot. I love Gail Carriger's books, but I seem to struggle with The Custard Protocol series.

The characters are what saved the book: they're easy to love and their banter is always great. My main problem is with the plot. Just like in the first book the cast travels to a far destination to... You know what, I'm not exactly sure with what plan. It's just all a bit vague and even uninteresting.

I lost my interest around 30%, then the romance between Rue and Quesnel made me read on, but after 75% I got bored again. The same things just seemed to happen on and on: fight on the dirigible, they need to go somewhere to get more fuel/water/whatever, love problems, another fight, oh they have to get fuel again... Only at the very beginning and very end new, exciting stuff happened. The plot is very dull; it doesn't seem to go anywhere. And knowing that they would get out of everything (relatively) fine really didn't make the story more exciting or compelling.

I read this book because I love the universe and its characters and I will read the next one because of that, but otherwise I wouldn't have finished this. The next one is with a different main character I believe, so hopefully that will make book 3 more exciting.