Not my favourite Tom Holt book, but a reasonably enjoyable escapist read nonetheless. Don't want to spoil it for other readers, but I found the ending a bit flat. I do enjoy his zany world of magic and mayhem, but this one didn't quite hang together as well as others. Saying all that, if you want...
I finally finished this damn book. It started off so promising, and that first chapter is absolutely hysterical. Unfortunately it's all downhill from there. The book just drags and drags with boring characters and no real plot, until the very very end where it suddenly comes back together with th...