**edit 01/25/14: I'm no longer posting reviews on GR, but I just realized I left an old squee-I-want-to-read-this in place of a review, so here's the update. 
 "Grown as a person. I like that. It's like growing as a mushroom, or growing as a bit of mould in a damp bathroom or something, only better." 
 Sharon Li is just beginning to settle into her new position as "community support officer for the magically inclined." She's getting the hang of office life (her tricks include the book Management For Beginners, multicoloured highlighters, post-it notes, and having only one subordinate, her IT-manager/ druid/ lackey/ admirer Rhys), and she's finally getting around to setting up speed-dating for the polymorphically unstable and bingo for retired witches. It's all going so well--of course, it can't last. The first discordant note is a cryptic warning from a lamp-post druid. Then Kelly Shirling, PA to the Midnight Mayor (aka guardian of the night, protector of the city, sorcerer, electric angel, creature of the telephone wires, muleheaded little pillock named Matthew Swift, etc, etc), turns up in Sharon's office, gushing, proffering donuts, and casually mentioning that Sharon has been "promoted" to Deputy Midnight Mayor and that, oh, yes, the Midnight Mayor has mysteriously disappeared. Congratulations and have a donut and, when you get a moment, do you think you can find the Mayor and also figure out why all he left behind was a blue umbrella? 
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 Due to my disapproval of GR's new and highly subjective review deletion policy, I am no longer posting full reviews here, even for books I really like. 
 The rest of this review can be found on Booklikes.