13.08.22
Garth Nix is a prolific and experienced (Australian) writer, so it's odd that this urban fantasy could have been so much better. The British characters all speak like Americans (but throw in uniquely British references to remind us that they aren't) and, despite explaining everything to each other at least three times, it's still not clear what's going on most of the time. The plot is a series of self-contained set-pieces that don't really hang together. It doesn't seem to have been proofread. Oh, and here's yet another book that is set 40 years ago purely to overcome plot points that would be made redundant by mobile phones and the internet.
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