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A Rivers of London #6
Ben Aaronovitch
Daw Books, Inc
January 31, 2017/ ISBN 9780756409678
Fantasy
Reviewed
by Jan Fields
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| Constable Peter Grant
lives a complicated life. His girlfriend is a river goddess.
His job is to keep the supernatural from too much destruction.
And he's presently in the middle of a case that is certain to
annoy both the posh and the magical. Sometimes a fantasy series
is written so that anyone jumping into any novel can quickly
sort out what's going on -- this isn't one of those at all,
and I would strongly recommend readers join this one only after
catching up on the past books. As a reader jumping in late to
the party, I found the story introduced a lot of characters
without enough exposition to help sort out which is a new character
and which is a returning character. There were a lot of things
going on and it was all terribly British. But even though I
was muddled more than once and even now couldn't claim to have
sorted it all out, I still found myself interested to know what
was going to happen next with Peter. The magic in this series
is interesting and unusual and I was especially taken with the
The Quiet People, the Faceless Man, and the river sisters. The
humor is very British, which makes it especially delightful,
and it made Peter an engaging narrator who keeps you on your
toes as you read. So altogether, an interesting book in what
appears to be an amazing series, but take my advice: start with
the first book and read up to this one.
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