Ink and Steel

This book seemed like two books: one a complicated mystery and the other an "urban" fantasy, all set in Elizabethan England and the realm of the Fae. The mystery part I didn't like too well. It had a lot of characters to follow and seemed to meander. The other part, the fantasy part, was pretty tight, especially in the last third of the book. It didn't make everything come together as this is the first part of a duology. In fact, it's the third book in a four-book series, but this is a prequel to the first two, and it's quite self-contained. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger, but it doesn't resolve the mystery. This book, with its sequel "Hell and Earth", won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2009.

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