This book has hundreds of five star reviews on Amazon, and I find myself wondering if they were all written by Peter Oxley’s mates, because I did not find the book to be great at all.
Set in the squalid streets of 18 hundred’s London, two low level criminals decide to go straight by setting up a demon hunting agency (in this version of London Demons are real, as well as golems, magicians, ghosts etc). For me the first half of the book really dragged – I didn’t warm to the characters, I found the action a bit chaotic and while others describe the book as very funny, I wasn’t really picking up on any humour. Many of my favourite books are urban/steampunk fantasy so it was not the genre that upset me. I did quite like the character of the young upper class woman trapped in a marriage with a very bad man, and my interest grew as she took more of a roll.
It wasn’t awful, and it did grow on me to the point where I considered buying the second book in the series, but then I caught myself on.
Sarah Wray Writer 