A very inventive fantasy story; the characters were very nicely drawn and the world was original to anything I've ever read. The Darkborn are people who cannot live in the light, sharing a city with The Lightborn, people who cannot live in the dark. I especially loved the Victorian type setting. It was like reading a mystery set in a Victorian fantasy world. Although I liked it well enough and felt the characters were well drawn, there is something about it that doesn't pull me in the way I wanted so I don't know if I will read the sequels. I also did not care for what seems like the beginning of a love triangle between a woman who is married, her husband and this new man that she meets. She wants desperately to not be attracted to the new guy, and I commend her for that, but I’m still not crazy about it. I’m afraid of what direction the author might take this aspect of the story in the next book.
