City of Dreams and Nightmare

This story is the first of a new series called A City of One Hundred Rows. Thaiburley is an immense city filled with strange creatures, rival gangs of thieves, and a class structure that has the elites living in the higher reaches of the city. Tom, a lowly street-nick witnesses a murder while snooping about in the upper levels. Tylus is a new member of the Kite Guard, an airborne police force. And Kat is mysterious young woman who gets thrown together with Tom as he eludes various pursuers.

I read this through to the end but it was slow going in places. Had a hard time buying the Kite Guard aerobatics. And the characters could have been more fleshed out. Kat was the most interesting one. I also wonder at the wisdom of having so many characters names beginning with T (Tom, Tylus, Ty-Gen, and Thomas – all different characters). For the most part the suspense just wasn't there.