Red-Eyed Reader

Wonderful read for all ages, Jun 15 2010

This is a kind of "Harry Potter meets Neverwhere meets Harry Dresden" (w/o the naughty bits). And yet the books stand on their own. Wonderful writing, story and structure. Can't go wrong if you liked the Potter books and are looking for something in the same vein, but a whole new concept of the magical world.

I really enjoy the hard-boiled detective (heh heh heh) take on the mystery.

Writing is fabulous, Nov 13 2009

The writing itself is melodic, thoughtful and engaging. It carries you through an otherwise predictable plot. I guessed the ending at the first mention of (well I won't spoil it) and if I hadn't been enjoying the actual authorship, I may have been hard-pressed to go on. There are no surprises at all. It seems all these stories have the same basic plot, whether ghostly or past-life based.

Thoughtful and imaginative, Aug 24 2009

I really enjoyed this book. It has much to say about how we construct our lives from memory, personal narrative and sense of belonging. I liked the chapter by chapter switching between Aniday and Henry, although I did enjoy Aniday's narrative more (and liked him more, I think) possibly due to it's fantasy foundation. This will make a very good movie as long as they don't lose the underlying psychological themes to an otherwise fantasy style story.