Are you excited for this book? Have you been waiting quite a while to read it? Are you expecting it to be a magical literary adventure? 
 I'm going to do you the pleasure of being swift and concise with this mini-review. 
 This book was boring. 
 Fuckall happens until more than halfway through the plot, at which point I barely even noticed as I didn't give two hoots about its development any more. 
 The first two thirds of the book meander along slowly as the two protagonists don't really do anything and everyone gets a full back story. Which, incidentally, would not be that bad if I gave a shit about a single character. 
 The writing style is fine - it's not literary as some reviewers would suggest. And yes, I suppose it does offer a few philosophical notions to add some form of substance to the dreary and flavourless soup that makes up the main course of the novel, but these philosophical thoughts are neither ground-breaking nor insightful. 
 In short, I expected an original and different historical urban fantasy adventure. 
 I have no idea what I got instead. Suffice to say I found it rubbish. And disappointing. 
 The end.