Tinker is a technological genius who lives in Pittsburg, a city that regularly transports itself between Earth and Elfhome due to a bizarre side effect of an interdimensional gate. There, Tinker invents things at a workshop in her very own scrapyard, races her motorbike, and stops listening when anyone tells her she's wasting her potential by not living on Earth where there are colleges with research labs. Why go to college when she already knows everything about quantum physics?
Then one day, a pack of wargs chases an elven noble into her scrapyard, and suddenly she's on an adventure that will require every scrap of her potential just to survive. Will her intelligence be enough to unravel alien elven customs, outsmart government agents, and foil and interdimensional plot? Oh, and while she's at it, will she ever find the time to go on her first date?
This book is pure fun. The action starts on the very first page, drawing you right into the story. The plot, characters, and setting are nothing revolutionary, but honestly I think that's what makes it so good. Wen Spencer writes the stereotypical urban fantasy book as if it isn't stereotypical at all, with care and attention to detail; she doesn't need fancy tricks to tell a good story. The elves are exactly as they should be, immortal, arrogant, somewhat baffling, and dead sexy. The government agents seem to come from an adventure movie, and the enemies are derived from familiar folklore. Yet, somehow, the story still seems as fresh as if nothing like it had ever been published before. This is the kind of stuff that made me fall in love with the urban fantasy genre long ago. It's wonderful to see it in a new book.
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