A slightly strange intro starts this book off with someone being "awakened" through ancestors and a voice that was something quite different. As the world returns to "normal" there is a sense of the silken threads of the lives of many people. Amy is a passing bystander to all this and is fascinated. She is an empath and can sense the magic creatures who are around in London but she has never come across an aura like this one. Despite the being having left the area, the next day she returns to the spot and is able to track its aura. She does have an issue with her powers as she doesn't really understand them well. Her grandmother was also an empath but died before she could tell Amy all she knew about the powers.

Amy already recognises, vampires, werewolves and mages/witches. However, the person she saw was Gerald, coming into his full powers as Grim Reaper. There is a question of who is actually stalking who however Gerald and Amy meet up with both very interested in the other. It's fair to say that they both consider the other rather strange! As might be gathered from Gerald's full name he is responsible for taking lives (there's a lot more to it than that!). Given Amy can follow/recognise magical beings who are targets for Gerald, working together might be an idea.

In London there is a realm below. Amy is unusual (and not always approved of) by having access to it and its citizens via Gerald. The book follows their relationship and activities both above and below ground. As the book progresses we learn some of the lore affecting Gerald and his tribe. Amy develops as a person and in her powers.

I found Amy a very good character indeed. I liked her abilities and the person she was. Within the framework of fantasy she felt credible to me and an interesting idea. It's fair to say that she is at odds with Gerald's "work" in the main (and intelligently so). I could understand the idea of them working together however I found it somewhat unconvincing. The fairly light approach to the narrative was fine however the dark parts contrasted starkly with this - assassinations and shopping in Harrods… There was something faintly Potteresque about this at times.

Individually both characters were good enough (Amy more so than that) but I'm not sure they worked together for me. Gerald (and his background) is complex but I found him nothing like as convincing as Amy. I would have really liked to love this but I can't honestly say I did. An interesting book and real credit to the character on Amy but it didn't really work for me.