This was fun but a little bit underdeveloped. I loved the world-building, with the monstrous sea-beasts, the everpresent threat of contagion, the magical adjustments that people make to enhance their various powers, and so on. But the ideas felt a little too telly and not enough showy. People's enhanced powers always felt directly relevant to the plot, rather than simply existing as part of the world; and the fears of contagion were expositioned at us, and realized when it was plot relevant, rather than shaping how people lived their lives and built their society in a more fundamental way. I was a little reminded of Kameron Hurley's bug-based science fantasy in her God's War trilogy, but where she deeply evoked her world in a very visceral way, this story felt too surfacy. It was fun. It was inventive. But I don't see myself eagerly waiting for the next installment in the series.