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Jan 01, 2014Vilka rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Very fun, briskly-paced adventure with well-drawn characters and a well-done setting. I stayed up reading this, and I'm a grown-up! The bogles give a good sense of danger, but are not graphic horror-movie scary, so it's still good for younger readers. Birdie is a strong, clever, capable girl determined to take care of herself and her aging boss on the streets of Victorian London. She enjoys her work as the bogle-hunter's apprentice--basically serving as bait for the monsters so her boss can exterminate them--but will soon be too old for the job. Then some of the local street-kids start disappearing in strange ways, and Birdie and her boss get drawn into the search to find what happened to them.