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Original Title:	Sixty-One Nails
ISBN:	0007333994 (ISBN13: 9780007333998)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Courts of the Feyre #1

Sixty-One Nails (Courts of the Feyre #1) Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

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Title	:	Sixty-One Nails (Courts of the Feyre #1)
Author	:	Mike Shevdon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	2009 by Angry Robot
Categories	:	Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. Paranormal. Fairies. Fae. Science Fiction Fantasy

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There is a secret war raging beneath the streets of London. A dark magic will be unleashed by the Untainted...Unless a new hero can be found. Neverwhere's faster, smarter brother has arrived.

Sixty-One Nails follows Niall Petersen, from a suspected heart attack on the London Underground, into the hidden world of the Feyre, an uncanny place of legend that lurks just beyond the surface of everyday life. The Untainted, the darkest of the Seven Courts, have made their play for power, and unless Niall can recreate the ritual of the Sixty-One Nails, their dark dominion will enslave all of the Feyre, and all of humankind too.

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Sixty-One Nails is boldly compared to Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere on the front cover, a claim that got my attention, but made me suspicious as well Was there any chance that Shevdon's novel could compare?The answer is . . . not really. To be honest, other than the beginning in which the main character Niall is drawn into an otherworld-London, there is very little to compare to Neverwhere.So with that out of the way, is the book worth reading? I guess that depends on your reading preference.

Nutshell blurb: Niall Peterson collapses on the London Underground and is revived by a woman who goes by the name of Blackbird. She is one of the Feyre and he must help her ensure that an ancient ritual is performed in order to prevent all of humankind from being enslaved by the Untainted.I'm following Ben Aaronovitch on Goodreads and I saw that he read this book and gave it 5 stars so I thought I'd check it out. I can totally see why he did. This was an engaging read that kept me gripped.

This book is about a man who discovers he's part Fey in a particularly un-fun way--he has a heart attack in the London Underground and then a nasty spirit tries to possess his almost-corpse.I generally enjoyed this book. It mixes action, historical fact, and myth into a tasty adventure tale of a man finding out he has to give up the life he's made for himself in order to protect his child's life. I liked the prose and I found the main character an interesting change from typical fantasy heroes.

Make this a three point five. There were stretches where this book was absolutely engrossing and then there were stretches where I had to skim. It wasn't a book I was dying to get back to either, even if I'd been interrupted during one of the engrossing parts. I think I didn't connect with either of the lead characters. The protagonist (it's told from the POV of the lead male) was absolutely TSTL at the beginning. And not because he was overwhelmed or uninformed, what he did was so stupid it

Maybe more of a 3.5 star book, but I quite liked it. It started off a bit dreamy and disconnected, and continued that way a bit, with the feeling that I was reading a myth almost more than being immersed in an adventure. It reminded me more of Charles de Lint that way more than Neil Gaiman, as the cover compared it to (and made me feel vary old in doing so by saying that this is the Neverwhere for the next generation - what generation am I?). In fact, I could see this being the first of many

4.5 StarsI loved this urban fantasy done right. Shevdon has done an amazing job at creating a world that is very much like our own, only his has more possibilities. The story is tight and fast paced, with a few twists along the way. The relationship and dare I say it, the romance between Blackbird and Rabbit is what makes this book really work. I loved how different these two characters were, and the way that they came to count on each other. This is one of those rare books that made me feel

A book that left me puzzled over the fact of just how much I enjoyed it.On one hand it's painfully obvious that this is the first book of the author. The dialoges and descriptions are all missing details, so much that sometimes it becomes hard to create a vivid world or even to just follow the dialoge to the point of "who just said this?". Normally, I would call the book sub-standart for this reason alone and never look at it again.Not this time.Because on the other hand, the author's raw talent