The Rivers of London/Peter Grant series continued on a strong note with books 4 and 5 in the series. I read these back to back, and decided to combine my reviews. Recap from Books 1-3: Peter Grant is a magician’s apprentice as well as a policeman in modern London. His special unit investigates and solves crimes involving paranormal phenomena. Most of the magician population was wiped out during WWII, but a newly trained dark magician is plotting something big while lots of other paranormal happenings […]
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
These, as Maria von Trapp would have it, are a few of my favourite things: 1. Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere; 2. The city of London; and 3. chocolate. Rivers of London just about covers two of these three, so it’s a good start. The book is about PC Peter Grant, newbie in the Metropolitan Police. Peter is basically an intelligent underachiever facing a long career in paper-pushing from behind a dreary desk in an uninteresting outer borough while the colleague-slash-friend that he fancies sees him as […]
It’s All Fine Until the Killer Unicorns Show Up
My fondness for Peter Grant and the London he occupies is now so strong that I’ll follow Aaronovitch wherever he decides to take Peter and his friends. In this fifth installment of the supernatural noir series (with excellent comic timing), Peter ends up being sent out of London up to North Herefordshire to help with the investigation of two missing girls. His job is basically to determine whether or not magic is involved, or as the police put it, whether it is a “Falcon” situation […]