Indexing by Seanan McGuire, 404 pagesI had this book for nearly a month before I actually got around to reading it and I don't know why I was so hesitant to start it. But finally at the start of a boring bus ride to work I did, and promptly kicked myself for waiting so long.
The premise behind this book, and possible series, is that fairy tales are real and at times they try to get themselves relived in the modern world. On the surface this seems fine, but when you consider some of the horrible things that happen in fairy tales, especially Grimm's it can get ugly pretty fast. An entire city falling asleep, overgrown thorny vines, and murder of various step mothers and family.
There to prevent these fairy tales from taking hold is the ATI Management Bureau. While some of the agents are normal humans, most are comprised of reformed story characters who, with ATI's involvement never went full story. Even though their story has been stopped, or at least paused, they keep the characteristics the story needed. So the main Snow White agent still had the blood red lips, skin the color of snow and raven black hair. She also has animals attracted to her and flowers that grow on the floors in her house. Combined with a somewhat reformed wicked stepsister, a show making elf, and a normal human, her team is one of many trying to preserve New York.
This book starts off well. It presents the chapters as various cases, with the story advancing in the case files. About midway through it does stall out a bit, plus I was getting tired of reading about cases that do not continue the main storyline in any meaningful way. But the ending made up for it, in a very Grimm story kind of way.
I think if you have read the Fables series, and enjoy some of the darker aspects of it, you should give this book a try.
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