Necropolis PD

I'm always up for a read that's a little "outside the box" or bonkers as I like to call them. This book was recommended to me by a book buddie as something I might find interesting and, as usual, she was spot on as, once I got my head round a few things, I whizzed through it at a bit of a rate!
Jacob Green has found his way into somewhere usually hidden from the living. The residents of the city of Meridian are dead. Sort of living dead, but not zombies, and ghosts mainly and, after being thoroughly interrogated as to how he found the entrance, the powers that be have decided that the best place for him to while away his days is as a member of the Necropolis PD. It turns out to be a bit of a baptism by fire as it turns out as someone appears to be killing the dead. Yes, I refer you to my aforementioned "bonkers" categorisation of this book! It soon transpires that Jake has a very interesting talent which he puts to very good use as, together with his overseer, Jake tries to get to the bottom of this most heinous crime spree.
Rather than hitting the ground running, this book has a bit of a slow build up. More to set the scene and explain the world in which Jake finds himself. There's a lot of key information imparted early doors, most of which has to be sat with for a while before it becomes more pertinent later on. But, when it does all start to come together - rather shockingly as it turns out - it does all make mostly credible sense, Well, credible within the world created anyway!
Slow build up aside, the book was perfectly paced with the way that certain information was delivered at just the right moments to build up both suspense and intrigue along the way.
Characterisation was, shall we just say, interesting. You'll get what I mean when you read the book as there isn't too much detail I can put here without potential spoilers but we do have a very eclectic mix of some very bizarre characters that Jake, along with the reader, has to get his head round! But it works, it really does - well, at the end of the day when all is finally revealed. You do have to suspend belief along the way a bit but it does all come good when the truth comes out!
I'm going to take a bit of a punt here and suggest that maybe this is the start of a series of books set in this world. There is too much attention to detail in the way the world is created for it not to be - surely!? It definitely felt more like a series opener rather than a pure stand-alone to me anyway and that concept does rather excite me!
All in all, a good solid read that stretched my imagination but left me satisfied at the end. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

I thought this book was great, it kept me interested all the way, and I liked the fact that it was a much darker urban Fantasy than the usual ones I read, it made a change to read a some what creepy and scary urban fantasy, I almost wasn't sure if it slotted into that category,there were certainly no cute little fairies in this book.I thought it was really imaginative and very original.the main character was great and I wanted him to be ok, and the idea of being alive in a world of the dead doesn't bare thinking about,whatever category it slots into its a very good read with some brilliant characters and a writer with heaps of imagination,and a great story to tell.I loved it and want to read more by this great new author.Thanks to the Publishers and netgalley for an ARC.