Monster-hunting's a tough job but someone has to do it. And it's considerably less unpleasant than the other careers available to Victorian orphans: mudlarking, pickpocketing, sewer toshing. What I liked best was an authentic feeling of time and place. Oh,well, and also the concept which is Supernatural with an old man and a ten-year-old girl. There are circles of salt. There is also an evil villain, an asylum, cemeteries, and gothic atmosphere for days.
Major kudos to the author for presenting the myriad real dangers of the time, without creating an anachronistic character to comment on them. Even the do-gooders here are period appropriate (I'm reminded of Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly). A fun adventure with the prospect of more to come.
Library copy.