Rating: Four Stars****
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Summary: John Taylor left the hidden netherworld of London, the Nightside, to make a normal living. When Joanna Barrett hires Taylor to find her runaway teenage daughter, he accepts because of his dwindling income and the danger that faces her daughter in this world. He's one of the only people who can navigate these parts and everyone in the Nightside knows him by name. He is able to find Catherine through his connections and supernatural instincts, but he finds that the mother who hired him was just a decoy and the creature that has lured Catherine into these realms is literally sucking the life out of her. Taylor and his old partner in crime, Suzie, use their instincts and Nighside know how to rid the house its powers.
Evaluation: A fast paced plot that incorporates mystery, the paranormal, as well as references snippets of literature. The only down side is that the dark, eeriness of the Nightside realm is over emphasized and becomes repetitive. Nonetheless, it is a great introduction to Taylor and the alternate world he thrives in.
Read-a-likes: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Dresdon Files series by Jim Butcher
Other books in the Nightside series
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