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 I found this book really interesting. The world building was quite fascinating, but maybe it was not as much explored as it could have been in this first book. We only see very little magic as Kit doesn't yet admit its existence, but it's interesting to see how she manages to find a rational explanation for everything and to find the trick to all the magic we see performed. 
 I liked Kit character. She has a strong personality and doesn't let herself be intimidated by the restrictions put on women by her society. Yet I didn't get the impression that the author was trying too much to make her a feminist in a way that didn't fit with the social and historical setting (that's something that I found too much in historical novels). She also has a rational mind and a profound honesty which doesn't allow her to extort too much money from people in exchange for her "exorcism" as she doesn't believe that they were really cursed. 
 I also found the character of Dredmore interesting. He only makes a brief apparition in the beginning of the novel, but Kit is obsessed with her hatred of him and thinks of him frequently. He was suitably mysterious, menacing and seducing. I really appreciate the fact that we learn more about the reasons for his obsession with Kit, their first meeting prior to the beginning of the novel and that he takes a bigger roles in the end of the novel. 
 Kit's numerous friends are also interesting. They only make a brief apparition but they still manage to make a strong impression and be memorable. The author also manage to let us know a lot about their personal history without it feeling like an info dump. 
 What I didn't appreciate is that nothing is resolved at the end of the novel and that it ends on a cliffhanger. While I will definitely read the second book in the series, I find it could have been handle a bit better, with at last one of the plot thread resolved or an epilogue. Yet this book was still an agreeable read that I recommend to fans of steam puck and urban fantasy.