Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this novel.
For me, I found this story disjointed and not well thought out and put together. The premise sounded fun and different but I didn’t have fun reading this book. Perhaps if you’d read the other books it would make more sense, the characters for example seemed like random letters but maybe this is explained in other books. I don’t understand why the main character is naked throughout the book again perhaps this is a common theme in other books?

A gala above a active volcano with a cowboy husband, wow that is one heck of a concept and made me want to check this book. It delivers on the description plot, I really enjoyed getting to read this and enjoyed the characters themselves. Lancelot Schaubert does a great job in telling this story and I'm excited to read more from them.

"Now that it demands your help — now that you got to come down here — you have to stop and fix what she prefers." They pulled up to the carriage line, with the great steam and smoke rising in a ring around the base of the tap. Black Jack pointed to a sign: WATCH FOR FALLING ROCKS. "What rocks?" he said. "Mountain's clear." "They vent the lava flow beneath by reverse gravity around the walls of the tap."

Thankyou to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book.

I'm going to immediately say that this book was bad. Very bad. The writing, the plot, the characters, the world building, all of it bad. At the end of the book it did say something about it being connected to other books. I really don't have the effort to check this out, but this could mean that it would make more sense to a reader already used to the world this story takes place in. So many names were just random letters thrown together, and the whole thing was difficult to read, let alone understand. The writing was sloppy, to be fair, everything was very sloppy.

I originally requested this ARC as the description sounded really fun and wacky. But it was just weird and confusing to actually read. The MC is naked for 90% of the story, for literally no reason. It brings nothing to the story. Why was the decision made for him to be naked? We shall never know...

There's also one part where a horse dies for no reason?? It read as though the author has a personal vendetta against horses to be honest.

Oh, and the characters use the word 'Author' in the same sense we use the word 'God'. Such as 'God help me', to them is 'Author help me'. Is the author of this book implying they see themselves as a God? Because I can assure them that they are not.

The last weird thing I want to mention, is the piss magic. Yes, magic with urine. ??? I'm just as confused as you are. I think the MC makes a rope out of his piss??? I don't want to elaborate further on this, and would like to put it as far out of my mind as possible.

Overall, a mess. I'd of DNF'd if it wasn't an ARC and I hadn't had a free afternoon to waste on it Unfortunately a big no from me, however I've given it 2 stars instead of 1, with hopes that if you've read the author's other works you'll understand this one a bit better.