I loved the concept of this book, a gender bender and queer forward take on Sherlock Holmes set in a fantasy based world. The writing was beautiful and I found myself chuckling at John Wyndham in his conservative way telling this story. I just had a hard time following all the plot lines. The story was written as if it was a serial publication and each chapter, while they were connected could stand independently. There were so many homages to giants in the fantasy world, I only got like a 1/4 of the references, so I felt a bit lost. I did really enjoy the story and found it to be a witty and imaginative.