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> Tag: Ben Aaronovitch

When Fairy Tales go bad

Deadly Ever After by Ben Aaronovitch

December 28, 2022 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

Deadly Ever After is the latest graphic novel from the increasingly extensive Rivers of London series. I read it as the 4 comics but it will also be available in graphic novel form (which is what I’ll buy my mum for her to read). Sequence wise this is the latest chronological story in canon so may not work for a new reader but as it mostly focuses on 2 side characters it could actually work ok as an introduction to a London in which magic […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Urban Fantasy

kittenkong42's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Urban Fantasy ·
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Pieces of Silver: A return to the Folly

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

October 4, 2022 by kittenkong42 Leave a Comment

Amongst Our Weapons is the 9th full length novel in the Rivers of London series and as per usual is definitely not the place to start if you haven’t read any of the books yet. (If you haven’t they are very good so head back to book 1 and pick it up!). And if you’re wondering why I’ve titled this review Pieces of Silver it’s because I won of the 100 celebratory coins minted for the publication of this book 🙂 We are once again […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Urban Fantasy

kittenkong42's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Urban Fantasy ·
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Amongst Our Weapons

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

September 9, 2022 by Classic 2 Comments

I think it’s time for me to put a pin in this series. I haven’t enjoyed it for a while now and the book seems to be signaling some characters are going to be gone in a few. I just have zero interest to keep reading about Peter and Beverly and everything else going on in London that mere mortals don’t know about anymore. It’s not a bad book, just a very boring one. It goes on forever it feels like. And we still have […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, rivers of london 9

Classic's CBR14 Review No:188 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, rivers of london 9 ·
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Cool premise, questionable tone

Midnight Riot / Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

May 7, 2022 by RaRaGabor 4 Comments

The “Rivers of London” series has been on my TBR for a long time. It’s billed as X-Files meets Harry Potter in London, and you might as well call it RaRa Catnip and be done. A work assignment relating to Mysteries in May finally gave me the push to read it – well, to listen to the audio on Libby. Peter Grant is a Probationary Constable, waiting for his long-term assignment after training. He’s hoping to be a detective with the Met, but the odds […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch

RaRaGabor's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch ·
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Magical Teenager – just a bit more contemporary than Harry

What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

May 14, 2021 by kittenkong42 1 Comment

This new novella in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch covers events that happened in summer 2013 when his primary protagonist Peter Grant was off solving the case of a missing child in Herefordshire (The Hanging Tree). During that summer we follow Peter’s cousin Abigail Kamara in London as teenagers go missing around Hampstead Heath and then turn up later missing their memories. At this point Abigail is still not formally attached to “The Folly”, but she has already been exposed to the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, spunky teenage heroine, teen, Urban Fantasy

kittenkong42's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, spunky teenage heroine, teen, Urban Fantasy ·
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*record scratch* you’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

February 11, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

well, not me per say- but DC Peter Grant. There was a good deal of magic AND non-magic kerfuffle at the end of Lies Sleeping. Peter, Lesley, Chorley, and the Nightingale himself were all thrown into the process of red tape and blue lines. I read Lies Sleeping back in September of last year, and then stopped dead in the ROL-iverse except for a short story here or there. False Value was available, but no way in hell was I about to mess up my matching set […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: Ada Lovelace, Ben Aaronovitch, dc peter grant, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, London, magic, paranormal, Peter Grant, police procedural, Rivers of London, Series, urban fantsasy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: Ada Lovelace, Ben Aaronovitch, dc peter grant, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, London, magic, paranormal, Peter Grant, police procedural, Rivers of London, Series, urban fantsasy ·
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