I quite liked some of the heresy era salamander stuff. But it's a small quite. Maybe it's not the salamanders it's mr Nick has made them so dull. I like the concept behind the iron hands but they are pretty hard to make interesting.
I very much dislike most of the stuff Nick Kyme writes and I was not a fan of the first book in this series either, but they look quite pretty, so after some deliberation I went ahead and ordered it. Remains to be seen how much I will end up regretting it.