mini-review, "The Guns Above" by Robyn Bennis:
Rickety wooden airships version of Aubrey Maturin / Honor Harrington, but compared to the latter the jokes are better and the politics aren't inexplicably awful.
It'd be easy to label this "steampunk" because airships, but I reject that.
It's not about wonderous technology made out of gears and brass. It's mid-19th-century warfare (bone saws included) that has the addition of smallish wood and helium airships that might break in half if you try and turn the rudder too hard.
If a page-turner about The First Female Airship Captain, war heroics, and people getting hit with cannonballs sounds fun, you'll probably like this book! If it doesn't, you probably won't!