Rivers of London: Action At A Distance #1 | 
pickIt's @Ddzmini's fault. Her posts made me want to revisit Peter, Nightingale, Leslie, Beverly and Molly.
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
pickI really liked this as it has a little of everything and some more besides great read
Rivers or London: I liked the entire series, but the first one does a lot of heavy lifting for the worldbuilding, while less polished I like that it's a standalone.
The Dawn of Everything is such a deep dive in anthropology and history of power, makes my head spin.
Black: The History of a Color is my favourite in the series because of black's status as both within and outside the color world, which lends more breadth to the narrative.
pickSo glad this is a series, because there's a lot going on that I want to see explored further, and as this novel had to introduce so much, I think the pace might even out better in later books. Funny, violent, as interested in telling you historical facts about London, as it is about speculating on the scientific underpinnings of magic or doing the detective work to solve crimes. Marvelous narrator for the audiobook.⚠️Infant death, gore, SA, racism
pickI really liked this one! The humor is my kind, apparently the way to make me care about crime is making it magical, and the pacing was enjoyable enough that I ended up finishing it at home; I rarely read at home. An acquaintance complained that the protagonist is too horny, but I felt like it was an intentional flaw for a series where there's a bildungsroman element but the mc is an adult. He's gotta mature more. Sad spl doesn't have the series.
Haven't been reading much but still enjoying this despite progressing at a snail's pace
"... it's like you're seeing stuff that isn't there."
"Like what?"
"I don't know," said Lesley. "I can't see stuff that isn't there."
Liking this one so far, despite it being unreasonably difficult to find due to not being sold by the original title in the US. blegh.
pan🌟DNF. Started out great! Then by 100 pages in started meandering in the dullest of places. It never gained the steam it had in the beginning so I tapped out. Too many books 📚 to waste time.
Q+A with Ben Aaronovitch tonight 🥰
BOOK MAIL❣️ look what my Owl delivered today🦉 Super excited to finally have the first six of the series. I have been wanting to read it for the past several years and haven‘t been able to get my hands the first book until now. 😆
A fun mix of mystery and paranormal/fantasy. I agree with an earlier comment that the two stories didn‘t really gel together, but I‘m looking forward to more from these characters.
pickEngaging blend of police procedural and fantasy with a decidedly British slant sees newly-minted copper Peter Grant drafted into the department of the Met responsible for the uncanny. Often very amusing as well though two separate storylines don't entirely gel.
Loved this when it first came out, and now looking forward to bingeing: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/07/ben-aaronovitchs-rivers-of-london-...
#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl
"It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo tripped over a body in front of the Eastt Portico of St. Paul's ay Covent Garden."
so-soWell it started of really good but it stagnated about 100 pages in... Im 300 pages in now and I would finish it if I had time but I don't. Have to mail my #lmpbc book tomorrow. @TheSpineView it will be on the way tomorrow.
🌞 Tagged is a re-read
🌞 It's an audiobook, also reading an eARC and a graphic novel
🌞 I'd give the tagged book 4 stars right now
🌞 I highlight when reading eBooks, use sticky notes on physical copies.
#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94
Want to play? @khooliha @Read-y_Picker @rockpools @ImperfectCJ
pickThis was such a good book! The storyline was great. The characters were likable and there was plenty of crazy magic stuff going on. This is my #LMPBC pick for #GroupL. Starting The Windup Girl, my #GroupV book for this round next!
pickCurrently loving this book, it's fast paced and leaves me very nostalgic of all the places Peter visits in London.
The hardback is a beautiful looking book too, recently released for the 10 year anniversary since first release.
Getting back to this Christmas gift pre-read. I have to read it and decide which of my sons I intend to give it to. 😂
Yay!!!!! New Rivers of London book coming in April!
For you nerds like me that love this series, Mr Aaronovitch posts about it over in FB land:
https://fb.watch/9PkjDEY8Jo/
😂 Also - The trailer makes want to yell “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!!”
Last half of November wrap up I loved the new Charlotte Holmes book. The Deavabad Trilogy wrapped up beautifully. I'm really enjoying the Rivers of London series. Finally, I wish I had read Mister B Gone instead of listening to it because the whole conceite really revolved around the reader holding a tradition book in their hands.
Yet another new book because my other ones didn't fit in my bag 😅 Hairdresser running late so found a nice graveyard to sit and read in
Another for #shelfofshame because I found a bookmark 3 chapters in!
@Clwojick
So, due to a rail strike where I live, I'll now be on a tram for the next hour and 20 minutes. But hey, reading time 😊
Giving this a second try now. Last time (a couple of years ago) I only made it to about page 60 before something else caught my fancy. Let's see what happens this time.
pickBooks 113 & 114/2021 ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 & ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Audiobooks
I first read these in 2015 and gave them both 5 stars. I have just listened to the audiobooks (which are well narrated) but I'm not feeling as enamoured with them so have revised ratings.
1: I love Ben Aaronovitch‘s Rivers of London series.
2: Someone already mentioned this, but I love that they‘re set in places I know or could visit, but they have a supernatural twist to them.
3: Charleston. There probably already is something, but I don‘t know the genre well enough to know what it would be.
#sundayfunday
pick#MidnightRiot #BenAaronovitch
Peter Grant is a constable on probation. He dreams of being a detective on London‘s Metro Police. DCI Thomas Nightingale uses magic to solve crime and likes the fact that Peter is getting information about murder from a ghost. This is a witty and twisting urban fantasy that uses imagination to help solve crime. Interesting characters and unique plot kept the pages turning. Looking forward to Book 2 and recommend.
pickFinished our first book of 2021! Not what I expected but enjoyable still. There were 2 major plots running through the book - the investigation of a murder and also the underlying story of the Rivers of London, the name of the series, the original title of the book. Probably why I had some trouble staying focused but I‘ll definitely go for the next book in the set. I‘ll give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ because I waited so long to read it and wasn‘t let down 😊⬇️
so-soThe whole plot seemed as if conjured from thin air, the clues and interrogations didn't make much sense. Everything was kind of tied together in the end but the whole process of getting there was not enjoyable at all. I lacked world building; the introduction of the characters, magic, vampires, rivers being people... all of it felt thrown in without any particular reason. All in all it's not a bad a book but it's not great either.
Are you like me? Are you half or part way through about 5 different series? #ProgressItNovember is an excellent way to focus on making progress in them. I‘m going to join in, as I hope to catch up on Ben Aaronovitch‘s fantasy crime Rivers of London series.
This is a great idea, @Andrew65 !
pickI really enjoyed this first book of the Rivers of London series. It‘s urban fantasy, set in London, and reminded me a lot of the Matthew Swift series. Aside from a few instances of unnecessary female objectification, overall this was a nice little supernatural mystery. My biggest pet peeves were the title change between the UK and US editions and the atrocious cover on the copy that showed up from my library hold (guess which is which?!).
IT STARTED at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul‘s at Covent Garden.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
It‘s time to adapt! 📕👉🏻🎥
1. As long as I know there is a book, I try and read it first. Sometimes I don‘t know, like with Jurassic Park 😂
2. Holes, that‘s the most faithful book to movie adaptation I‘ve ever seen. And I loved it!
3. 👆🏻 So far, everyone involved in this appears to be a fan of the source material, so I‘m stoked!
#sundayfunday Have a good day and don‘t forget to tag me!
pickIt's always exciting when you find a new series that you get giddy for the next book.
The book goes by "Rivers of London" and "Midnight Riot".
pickThis book seems like it is in a genre all its own. It is a crime novel, but it also has supernatural elements woven throughout. The only other book series that I know of which may even come close is the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. The Rivers of London series is an eight-book series, but I only read the first three books before getting bored. I would recommend this book, however; it is very well-written and quite funny. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Vampire mysteries is a sub genre that I didn‘t know existed but am now oddly compelled to explore...
Julia Fullerton-Batten, “Bathers at Tower Bridge.” - What a romp! Midnight Riot is a book that accretes, adding layers & chipping away to glimpse layers underneath. Glad #bookspin finally made me tackle this. Peter Grant is too stoic for words, but the speed with which he accepts his new world helps the reader get acclimated as well.
panI wanted to check out the german audioplay adaptation of the Peter Grant novels for a while now, and I should have followed my instincts and postponed indefinetly... it really loses his charm, the narrator really doesn''t seem to GET peter and there's so many cultural jokes that noticably just don't translate. Besides some really weird pronunciation choices... so: if possible, go for the original! #lostintranslation
This book has been on my radar for months... I finally picked it up and couldn‘t put it down. I‘ve been reading out of my normal genre lately and loving it.
so-soHmmm... it reminds me of the Ritter books except they have more of an emotional pull whereas this is slapstick, tongue dragging, and violence. Parts are interesting but no sure I will continue series.
#WyrdAndWonder Day 2: ‘start here‘
There‘s as many gateways to fantasy as there are fantasy books, but today I‘m plugging for Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. Neverwhere meets The Bill. PC Grant gets seconded to a unit the Met will never admit exists after an odd death in Covent Garden. Urban mythology, plenty of snark and at times pitch black developments as Grant tries to bring modern policing methods to supernatural crime. Great stuff.
