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 >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsLondon / Magic / police procedural / Recommended Reads / Urban-Fantasy20 Comments
Dear Mr. Aaronovitch, Back in March, I read and reviewed your terrific debut, Midnight Riot (Rivers of London in the UK), an urban fantasy/police procedural narrated by an endearing London police constable named Peter Grant. Peter is a new recruit in a secret (and very small) department of the London ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsLondon / police procedural / Recommended Reads / Urban-Fantasy26 Comments
Dear Mr. Aaronovitch, I’ve been recommending enough books here lately that I have started to worry that my grades are overgenerous. But when a book is as much fun as your debut urban fantasy/police procedural, Midnight Riot, what is a reviewer to do? I picked up Midnight Riot (also known ... more >