Review: Well done
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
For the first book of a series, this one really worked for me.  Yes, there have been others before it with the same basic theme, like Harry Dresden and the Nightside, but for me that didn't take away from the enjoyment of reading about the author's characters.  The world is well-realized, though I might have liked a little more information on how the world transitioned with the realization that things like vampires and werewolves really existed.  It just seemed a little too easy for me, the way people seemed to have just accepted it so quickly.  But if there was anything that really kept the book from getting better than four stars it was the grammatical errors and typos.  It's not like it was words misspelled, it was the wrong, but correctly-spelled words.  "Going" instead of "getting", or "singing" instead of "singeing".  Heck, at one point in the book a fairly important character is referred to by the wrong name.  It's like the spell-checker caught things, but the book wasn't proofread by anyone else.  There's a lot of promise to this author's work, it's just a shame to see it marred by avoidable errors.  All that aside, I'm looking forward to the next in the series, hopefully I'll find it soon.