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**3.75**
Midnight Riot is a promising beginning to Aaronovitch’s series. Following PC Peter Grant of the London Metro Police (a mixed-race hero - hurrah!), the story introduces us to London as UF landscape - filled with magic, gods and ghosts and other implied supernatural creatures. When a streak of inexplicable bloody events occurs, Grant finds himself inadvertently swept up in the investigation and in the oddities surrounding it.
Readers have already likened Grant to my dear Harry Dresden and I ...more
Midnight Riot is a promising beginning to Aaronovitch’s series. Following PC Peter Grant of the London Metro Police (a mixed-race hero - hurrah!), the story introduces us to London as UF landscape - filled with magic, gods and ghosts and other implied supernatural creatures. When a streak of inexplicable bloody events occurs, Grant finds himself inadvertently swept up in the investigation and in the oddities surrounding it.
Readers have already likened Grant to my dear Harry Dresden and I ...more
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Clever story was just too slow to be rated any higher than 3 stars.
Probationary Detective Peter Grant is kind of undisciplined and scattered to be great detective, but he is rescued from a career of boredom filling out paperwork in the London Metropolitan Police Case Progression Unit by Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale who takes him on as an apprentice after Peter gets vital information about a murder from a ghost. Chief Nightingale is head of the Folly and the last officially sancti ...more
Probationary Detective Peter Grant is kind of undisciplined and scattered to be great detective, but he is rescued from a career of boredom filling out paperwork in the London Metropolitan Police Case Progression Unit by Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale who takes him on as an apprentice after Peter gets vital information about a murder from a ghost. Chief Nightingale is head of the Folly and the last officially sancti ...more
Greatly enjoyed this book. The characters are interesting, the magic is engaging without being over the top and the story was pretty solid.
I'm already onto the second book, Moons Over Soho.
9/4/25 - Second read is the Audiobook wonderfully narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. My initial review stands despite 14 years having passed since initially reading the book. There was a LOT I did not remember, but it I enjoyed it a lot. It has been just over 20 years since I was in London and this book makes ...more
I'm already onto the second book, Moons Over Soho.
9/4/25 - Second read is the Audiobook wonderfully narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. My initial review stands despite 14 years having passed since initially reading the book. There was a LOT I did not remember, but it I enjoyed it a lot. It has been just over 20 years since I was in London and this book makes ...more
Skvělý úvod, až příliš překombinovaná druhá půlka. První polovina se mi moc líbila, byla to skvělá kombinace humoru a akce, zase něco trochu jiného, ale jakmile Peter začal vyšetřovat sám, začala jsem trochu ztrácet zájem, abych řekla pravdu.
I love this series and although I read the second one first - which was a mistake as this book sets a lot of what happens in the second book up - I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
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