This was the second Charles De Lint book I ever read and it remains one of my favorites and that made me a fan of the author.

I like the sense of fun it has, the easy blending of the modern world and fantasy and even the fact that it was short. A lot of his books as he keeps on writing start to get longer and longer and feeling a bit dragged out. This one was just as long as it needed to be. ( )

Very loose adaptation adds bikers, bogles, bogans and more.

Definitely an archetypal example of the urban fantasy novel, if a bit lighter and more fairyish than some of the more recent examples.

Here, Jack is a girl, and she gets involved with the world of Faerie after he boyfriend gives her the arse, and taking a friend along for the ride ends up having the usual sort of experiences that you would expect if you ran across faery bikers and other such oddities.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/12... ( )

Jack, The Giant-Killer by Charles De Lint uses just a tad of the old Jack myth (well, it uses the name and the giant killing...) and lots of faeries in the cities, much like in Emma Bull's War for the Oaks. Like the last book it was interesting, but not all that exciting. ( )