The Paradox

"Those already familiar with this world will be delighted, and newcomers will eagerly lose themselves in this utterly imaginative fantasy."

"A teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized. This feels like the start of something amazing."

"A thoughtfully dense, fully realized construct.... Best of all, you never know where it's going next. As good as or better than the opener. Grab."

"Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step."

"I couldn't stop reading... It really is a richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana: gothic as all get out, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane. Cheerable goodies, grotesque baddies: the whole book is adventurous and flavorsome and gripping. I really enjoyed it."

"Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke."

"I'll certainly be reading the next one."

"It's oh so moreish a morsel. I'd read a prequel this evening, a sequel as soon as."

"A trilogy worth sinking your teeth into."

"The second book can't come soon enough."