It is very well written. The story has very good pacing, establishing the relationships between the two point of view characters, and the people in their orbits. The two point of view characters are a mother and her 9 year old daughter, separated from each other in a different world.

The story has good world building that is drip fed to us at a steady rate, not drowning the reader in lore, letting the system stay (for now) hidden in the background to give the story room to breathe. Giving us plenty of varied content to chew on, personal relationships, magical engineering, political maneuvering, starting a noble house, trying to revolutionise this world with magical technology inspired by our modern technology, making money and building business relationships.

There is a fair amount of aristocratic intrigue, a handful of combat scenes (so far), the courtly drama of establishing a new noble house in another world.

I am hooked

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So If I rated this at chapter 10 it would have been 5 stars for certain.  However, the story gets really hard to follow.  The story has two protags, mother and daughter and it seems like very little progress has been made to reunite them.  I guess that is okay but that brings me to what really is costs this could-be-great story a star.  The cast of characters is absolutely huge.

Mother and daughter both get their own group and it just keep going up from there.  I feel like to actually read this and understand all the named characters I should be taking notes. Some people might not mind this but I don't like a story where it is too difficult to follow.

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