Left-Handed Booksellers of London

Entertainingly dashed together fantasy-myth-police-thriller, clever enough.

I liked the worldbuilding quite a lot. Nix is a good writer. Solid fantasy prose and good characters, carefully crafted.

This was fine! I read it! I was an 80s teen/young adult and I used to live in London, so I enjoyed those parts of the scene. But this didn’t grab me and I’m not sure why. Too many characters? Not enough time with Merlin? And this is niche, but: the bookseller idea is fun—I’m all in favor of thinking about booksellers as long-living mystical families—but it wasn’t integrated into the story. They could have been clock repairers and that might have made more sense.