Status Updates From Time of Trial (The Laws of ...

'Aubrey was falling. He was relatively happy about this state of affairs; it meant that he hadn’t yet reached the sudden stop at the bottom.'

"The affected nonchalance was so studied that Aubrey thought it could have passed the civil service examination with first class honours."

I'm a big fan of adventure books with political intrigue and I put this series off because I was unsure of how to fit an Edwardian steampunk-magic hybrid series with primarily heterosexual male protagonists into my reading schedule and that appears to have been a mistake.