I was quite excited to read this book as it had good reviews from friends of mine and in principle sounds good, a police procedural with a fantasy twist, but ultimately it wasn’t for me. I can’t say whether it’s the genre, as it’s not something I’ve really read before, or this specific book but I probably won’t bother picking up any more of the series. 

 

Partly I suspect I don’t really understand the world. It seems that it’s supposed to be the normal world we live in where no one knows magic is real, but then no ones remotely surprised when they find out it is real. No one seems to lose it when they find out magic is real, and it made the characters less real for me. The plot itself seemed sporadic, there is the overall arc of solving the mystery of the possessions, however it feels it’s just used a vessel to explore this world. Each step of solving the case introduces a new part of the world and these scenes feel like they’ve been shoehorned in to introduce part of the world rather than a plot point. The protagonist is deep and nicely written but not someone I particularly identify with, which is not the authors fault but unfortunately made it harder for me to get into the book. 

 

I have no major criticism for this book, and I am sure many people would enjoy it. The writing itself is nicely done and easy to read, and if you can get absorbed into the world I’m sure it could be amazing, I wasn’t able to though for a variety of reasons but I didn’t have a bad time reading it.