Sixty-One Nails

It's getting harder and harder to write a hidden unknown world/creatures in London with the large body of work that already exists. And I was thinking that as I started this book. That said it turned out to be very enjoyable and I will definitely get the subsequent books of the series.

I enjoyed the story. It was well passed and the characters were likeable. I just struggled to submerge myself in the fantasy world beneath London.

If you like urban fantasy I'm sure you will enjoy this book

After few dozen pages I was not thrilled. Just another urban fantasy with Faire/Sidhe/etc hiding among humans. But later on the plot got more interesting and I'll be picking up the second volume.
Extra points for the first one being a self-contained novel, without cliffhangers to be resolved in volumes 2...n ;-).

I had a lot of fun with this story and am looking forward to reading the sequel.

Excellent introduction to a new series. It balances being a dark kind of gritty modern fantasy with a brighter magical feel. In general it sits squarely between Charles de Lint and Neil Gaiman.

I will admit a slight bias. For the most part I adore stories that go into the politics of the Fae and involve the courts. I like how the book evokes a feeling of a time when people feared the Other crowd and did what they could to prevent interacting with them.

One of the blurbs on this book called it a “Neverwhere for the next generation,” referring to Neil Gaiman's book. That's what caught my eye. So I gave this one a shot. The story is set in present day London. Niall Petersen suffers a heart attack while in the London Underground and when he recovers finds that his whole world has changed. The woman who helped him is called Blackbird and she's part of the hidden world of the Feyre. And now Niall is too. This story moves along quickly, never gets dull, and is always interesting. Mike Shevdon weaves in century-old history into an involving story of Fey people, ancient rituals, magic, and a hidden world. It's consistently entertaining and interesting. It's also the first of a proposed trilogy called The Courts of the Feyre. The second book, The Road to Bedlam, is currently out in paperback. I already snapped it up.