** spoiler alert ** 
 Highly predictable, and predictability is the Achilles' heel of fantasy book. Meet Tiki (weird nickname that sounds not so British), a street pickpocket. Not only a talented pickpocket, she's also pretty, generous, nice, fast, educated and HAD AN UNUSUAL BIRTHMARK on her wrist, rumored to be MARKED BY FAERIES. 
 Yeah, so you know the rest of the story. It will definitely involved Tiki embarking on an awesome adventure, probably to do something grand like save the world and be in love. Period 
 I quit around Chapter 4, really. Don't get me wrong, I love faeries, and the Victorian era, and princes and masquerades and street thieves. But it must be realistic and not predictable. Just in the first few chapters, I feel like everything magical was shoved down my throat. Behold, Tiki had an usual birthmark, and her mother said the faeries marked it *Wink, wink, nudge, nudge*, and Tiki could hear voices and see lights in the shadows no one else could see, and plus, there seemed to be a mysterious girl following her, and then there suddenly a gang of faeries tried to harm her... Bam, all secrets revealed. There are faeries in London, I get it. And Tiki, somehow lucky enough to steal the Faerie Ring - a ring that functioned to bound the faerie world and our world. I just don't get how Tiki could do it really. She just went easily inside the Buckingham Palace, Jesus, as if the Buckingham Palace guards were all mysteriously asleep and forgot their duties. The author is telling me that an 18 year-old girl could fool England top security. 
 So utterly believable. 
 Even though I know that every fantasy needs a hero, I don't want a hero who comes across as a hero. I mean, I want a character who comes across as normal, as ordinary, as flawed, like a human, not pretty, not super distinguishable, but in the end wind up to be a hero (wink, Harry Potter), but most fantasy book these days keep shoving the Mary Sue down your throat. 
 Not to discourage the author who spent time strenuously wrote this book, I must say she really had skill in sketching action scenes and at least avoided the trap of insta-love. 
 Recommend for those who just want to ignore all the stupid flaws and pretend they are an awesome pickpocket who roamed the street of London :) 
 Have fun reading!