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Spooky Spelunking Ahoy!

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

May 24, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

…but before we dig in, let’s celebrate a Pulp reference! Well, our victim had a thirst for knowledge,” said Stephanopoulos. “He was a student at St. Martins College. Ha! Delightful. This series is chock full of geeky innuendo. Come for a magical rollick through London, but stay for the myriad Harry Potter, Terry Pratchett, Dr. Who, and Tolkien references- just to name a few. Somehow, despite many references to the fantasy that came before and continues to ripple around the world of Rivers of London, this […]

When the London Met Crashes into Urban fantasy

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

May 24, 2020 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Like every Dresden Files fan, I’ve been flailing around for ages with the lack of new releases. And with the announcement that the next two books will be out later this year my impatience has not gotten better, but worse! So I recently started hunting around for something to keep me occupied. And I ended up landing on Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant novels. I wasn’t entirely unfamiliar with these – I had read a sample of Rivers of London a few years ago, but I […]

Another Fun Romp Through the Rivers of London

Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

May 21, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Peter Grant is back, and he is diving further into the underbelly of London and the under-the-table world of magical police work. In the last outing, Midnight Riot, I was treated to a great deal of London’s history. There was another blast of history this time as well; it remains a primer on the foundations of the city and running commentary on the architectural abominations foisted upon the area since the ’50s. Were it not for all the gore and sex I’d say that ol Prince […]

Time for some magitech

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

April 9, 2020 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

The Rivers of London series is one of my favourites being a London based urban fantasy centring around DC Peter Grant, a copper who back in the first book got himself mixed up in magic and seconded to the Metropolitan Police’s covet magic division “The Folly”. We’re now at the eighth full length novel in an increasing detailed series – we have offshoots in other countries (The October Man in Germany), graphic novels, and a sense of a slowly building world in which magic is […]

Urban Fantasy in London – Yay!

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

August 25, 2019 by Jen K 1 Comment

I think I saw this series mentioned a while back on Cannonball Read and added it to my wish list but didn’t download it until my last trip to London. I quite enjoy urban fantasy series but most of them tend to start with the hero already involved in the magical world, even if they have no idea how little they know. Of course, then there are the other stories about magic and the supernatural, where a person who had no previous knowledge of them, […]

New guy, same weird problems

The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

June 28, 2019 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

Ben Aaronovitch takes a detour from London in his latest urban fantasy novella, but doesn’t really go too far afield. In The October Man we take a break from the adventures of Peter Grant in London to see what is happening elsewhere in the world of magical policing. We arrive in Germany to enjoy an adventure with Peter’s counterpart Tobias (Tobi) Winter, another young copper who turned out to have a bit of a gift with magic. Tobi is assigned to work a case in […]

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