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Magic is about control, focus, and being able to concentrate when you’re drowning to death.

September 7, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

I’m definitely rolling downhill with these Rivers of London/Peter Grant books. They are predictably a delight, and I catch myself racing through them and savoring them all at once. I’m very happy to report that The Hanging Tree provides a great moving-forward of things, myth-arc-wise. I had been a little worried after the two graphic novel intervals between this and Foxglove Summer. But we’re back on track, with delightful reference to the happenings of Body Work and Night Witch (and only a handful of contradictions). […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: aaronovitch, abdul haqq walid, Ben Aaronovitch, beverly brook, cbr9, faceless man, lady ty, lesley may, molly, night witch, Peter Grant, Rivers of London, sahra guleed, stephanopolous, thomas nightingale

Resources, as they say, become available.

August 23, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

Ben Aaronovitch’s “Rivers of London”/PC Peter Grant series continues – and completes, unless he’s planning on returning to this form after The Hanging Tree, which is next, and a standard novel – its dip into the medium of graphic novel with Night Witch, with a very mytharc-y story. Again, sorry if “mytharc” is a thing non-X-Files fans don’t say. Anyway, because it’s a story that is much more linkable to the overall arc of the series than Body Work was, I much prefer it, if […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: aaronovitch, abdul haqq walid, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, beverly brook, Cartmel, cbr9, faceless man, lesley may, London, notmymolly, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, thomas nightingale, Urban Fantasy, varvara sidorovna tamonina

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