In my quest for more urban fantasy, I stumbled across this series. My felings toward this book are quite mixed I must say. The book does not lack originality. Mead had created a world that actually consists of two worlds. The human realm and the Otherworld, home to the shining ones or gentry. 
 Enter Eugenie, a shaman who banishes otherworld creatures out of the human realm back to their own. However, she finds herself having to bodily go to the Otherworld to learn how all the gentry seem to know her real name and why they keep trying to get frisky with her. 
 Really, the story is quite engaging and intriguing but the execution of it is lacking and bland. Quite novice in the writing style, or at least it seems so to me. I shall continue with the series though, just to see where this story goes. I have hope that it will get better.