A- Reviews / B Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF ReviewsReading lists11 Comments
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch This is the latest novella in the Rivers of London / Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch, which I somehow missed when it first came out. The story begins with the sighting of ghosts on London’s trains. Nightingale and Peter enlist Peter’s teenage cousin ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsbiracial hero / London / Magic / police procedural / UF / Urban-Fantasy21 Comments
Dear Mr. Aaronovich, The sixth book in your Rivers of London series, The Hanging Tree, begins with a phone call. Peter Grant, police constable and wizard’s apprentice, is asleep in his river goddess girlfriend Beverley’s bed when his cell phone rings. On the other end is Beverley’s sister and fellow ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsbiracial hero / Magic / police procedural / rural setting / Urban-Fantasy18 Comments
Dear Mr. Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer, the fifth book in your urban fantasy series, finds the hero of the series, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant, driving out to the countryside to help investigate a missing persons case. Two eleven year old girls, Hannah Marstowe and Nicole Lacey, have disappeared from the ... more >
C ReviewsLondon / Magic / police procedural / Urban-Fantasy12 Comments
Dear Mr. Aaronovich, I enjoyed all your earlier books in the Peter Grant urban fantasy series, from Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London) to Moon Over Soho to Whispers Under Ground, although I put off reading book four, Broken Homes, because I had mixed feelings about your comments in the ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsLondon / police procedural / Recommended Reads / Urban-Fantasy14 Comments
Please note: This review is for book three in a series, so it contains some spoilers for the previous two books. Readers who would like to hear more about the Peter Grant series but remain spoiler free are invited to check out the review of the first book, Midnight Riot ... more >
Reading ListsReading lists17 Comments
My hot reading streak in February and March turned into a reading slump in April. For a little while there, I couldn’t get more than a few pages into anything I picked up. I couldn’t even tell you guys what I tried to read at that time, because I didn’t ... more >