From Goodreads: Law comes in two sizes: six inches and eight feet.

Elanore, the eight-foot tall troll, and Gurt, the six-inch tall (don’t you dare call me a fairy) Eleinu, both guardsmen in the city of Delvenport, tackle their most baffling case yet. When they find a dead waitress, naked except for an intricate tattoo in a spiral across her body, they’re launched into an adventure in the seedier side of Delvenport, filled with rogue mages, prostitution, and narcotics.

But can they solve the case before madness and riots take over the city?

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This was an interesting novel, with an interesting premise, but I just didn’t care for it all that much.  The writing was good, the characters were well done, but I never really connected with the story itself.  Honestly, I don’t know why this is.  I love first person narration, and Parry delivers just that in this novel.  I enjoyed the characterization—both Gurt and Elanore have very human characteristics and they deal with real life problems.  I do like a bit of magic and fantasy, and that, too, fills the pages of the novel.  There’s a great mystery to be solved, as well.  So, what’s my hang-up?  I don’t know.  My honest feelings are that my preference for novels may have shifted over the last year without my realization.  I used to be a YA, fantasy, paranormal romance kind of girl, but now I’m thinking that maybe I’m falling out of love with the fantasy aspect… ?  Part of me wonders if I would have enjoyed the story more if the troll and fairy were human, but I don’t know if that’s the issue. I mean, these characters, though fantastical, do have human qualities, and I love a good fairytale, just like most people, so… I have no idea.  I just never really connected with Gurt or his problems.  Part of me thinks that maybe I’m now more or less a YA girl all the way, but I don’t know that that’s the issue here either.  I’ve read my fair share of novels with older characters and I’ve enjoyed them just as much as I like YA, so… I just don’t know.  What I do know is that the story, while intriguing, just didn’t pique my interest enough for me to really care one way or another, and I think that’s more of a personal problem than the story’s problem.  People change, their preferences change, and I’ve gone back and read amazing books years later and questioned what I ever saw in the book in the first place, so, what I’m saying is, I think you should give this novel a try.  It’s really weird to me that I can’t put my finger on why I never made any connections to the characters or the story, so I definitely think you need to check out this novel yourself, especially if you’re a fantasy fan, because, in all honesty, it is well written.  My personal rating, though, is two stars.

I received a copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review.