Well, I'm stupidly sensitive to pacing overall, and get pretty harsh on books that aren't spot-on perfect -- but like I said, I still mostly enjoyed Novik's series, so I might go back and give Ivory another shot. Especially if the book after that is good.

Ooooh, all of those sound pretty good. I'm gonna pop those through Amazon and see which of them I can DL straight off the site. Thank you! ♥