nocto
On the one hand I was expecting to mostly like this as I loved reading The Night Watch a couple of years back. On the other hand I was a bit dubious about it being a ghost story as supernatural elements in books typically annoy me. These about cancelled each other out - I didn't love it or hate it. I liked the setting and the characters and I thought the ghostly elements were mostly unnecessary and it would have been a much better book without them there, there was enough interest in the story without them.
Purchased on 1st August 2009.
There’s a really good (spoilerific) discussion about this book, between people who think it contained ghosts and those who don’t (I’d have preferred to have been in the second camp), over at John Self’s Asylum.