Rating: 
Summary: Not even close to the Anthologies
Review: This novel was a good read, but it didn't rate up with the original anthologies of the Bordertown series. The raw edge in the original Bordertown series is lost in this novel. What was once raw has become placid and stale. The secondary characters were in no way as good as the multiple secondary characters in the short stories. The attitude of Finder and his characterization were lacking in believability. I felt more involved with the elf character of Tick-Tick; I don't know why I felt this way, but I did. I felt Elsewhere was a better novel than Finder, even if it was rougher in writing style and not as smoothed around the edges. This book was too smooth to be from the Bordertown series.
Rating: 
Summary: wow. got a lot more than i expected
Review: thought it would just be a fun book to read, nothing gripping or plot wrenching like tolkien or brooks or other fantasy writers. then bam it hits you full on the mix of magic and tech sort of like rock, cafes, magic mixing. someplace that seems so real and desireable. the story i expected to be just a casual story turned out to have all the things i love in a sci fi/fantasy mixed in, in a new way. i just didn't expect it but boy it was great. if you read one bordertown story read finder.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Quick Read
Review: Totally compelling. I started this book yesterday and just finished it. Why is this woman not more of a household name? She deserves a gold star for her fun world - Bordertown, on the edge between Fairy and our world, where the laws of physics don't quite apply and the laws of magic go a little screwy too. What a great setting for the hard-boiled crime thriller she's written! Her characters are fun and as believable as her world (in other words: not so much, but we're willing to play along). If she succumbs to the temptation to create the fantasy coolness her adolescent self must have dreamed on (the perfect bar, the best bookstore, the hottest bike) , the stuff really is cool and I enjoy running down the fantasy with her, so she's forgiven this amateurish stroke. Plus, her writing is fluent, unpretentious, and startlingly good. She's particularly adept at giving each character a distinct and unique voice.
Rating:
Summary: Emma Bull is really coming into her own.
Review: Wow! Emma Bull knows what magic is and isn't, and what life is like on the border between Seen and Unseen. A simple but fresh mystery story set in a dark city that is half fantasy and half gritty streets. I loved it. I'll read it again.
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