Overall, it was good times!
I dug the steampunk setting. Every time the "windups" were mentioned, my eye twitched (Windup, I'm dying to know if your handle came from this series, or if it's an Easter Egg, or just a big coincidence). Mira is totally my home girl!
It took me a while to get into the story at first. Lots of guys hanging out, drinking brandy and talking about potato futures. Okay, actually all the talk of potatoes really amused me, especially as the book went on and increasingly drastic things were done in the name of Moar Potatoes! I was actually craving potatoes by the time I finished the book.
But about midway through, the pace really picked up, right about the time Mira is revealed to be a total badass. I was really into her scenes earlier in the book, and watching her unfold as character was completely awesome. My absolute favorite part of the whole book was the sequence where she breaks out of the tower hotel, overpowering the kidnappers and then trussing them up, and then *RELEASING THE POISON CLOUD* on them! I mean, holy crap, that was COLD! She's got that interesting, complex, antihero thing going on, where she's only on the side of the pro-potato heroes because of her disease, but at any point in the future she just might turn on them, if that ever changes. Kind of reminded me of Spike from Buffy.
Now to eat some potatoes.