Review: Fantastic Dark Urban Fantasy!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2014
Craig Shaeffer;s "The Long Way Down" is a riveting read.  From the first pages of the novel you are thrust into the seamier side of Las Vegas life.  Faust, down on his luck, is hired by a grieving Midwestern grandfather just how his granddaughter met her end.  Faust goes literally and figuratively into the Underground of Las Vegas to find out.  It doesn't take much for the story's main character to realise that there is a whole lot more to her death than just an accidental drowning. There are darker forces at work both in the mundane world that most people know and the realm of what is mostly unseen.Schaefer's novel shows that he is a writer who has done his homework.  I've lived in Las Vegas and been in and around occult and magical circles.  In short, the writer knows what he is talking about and he tells a story that is very hard to put down and will keep you up until you finish it.  While I as reading it, friends noted it was very  hard to pull my attention away from it.  That kind of storytelling is rare, and to use the pun that connects the writer to his main character, Craig Schaefer has that ability in spades.