And when Peter and Leslie catch an old fashioned Punch and Judy show, their lives will never be the same. You know, just the garden variety – people randomly going postal, a ghost claims he’s being eaten, and a major territory dispute between local spirits (which involves it’s own magnificent plot line regarding London’s geological past). Didn’t hurt either, that Midnight Riot is the most fun I’ve had in a while!Īlong with his old police partner Leslie, Peter continues to work on regular investigations. I’ve been reading a lot of fantasy and historical fiction recently, so it was very refreshing to read something that takes place right now. Don’t let the unfamiliar slang concern you, there really isn’t that much of it and you can figure it all out contextually. There’s pop culture references, puns galore, and buckets of British slang that had me heading to Wikipedia for the translations (and boy does Austin Powers suddenly make more sense!). The pop culture jokes are hilarious, I found myself laughing out loud every few pages. So Peter’s new life begins: copper by day, magical apprentice by night. So special in fact, that other than Peter there is only one member, an Inspector Nightingale, who eschews modern technology, dresses too formally, and has a tenuous relationship with the rest of the Met, only partly because he happens to be a wizard. Shortly after, he’s assigned to a special branch of the Metropolitan Police. When Peter finds himself talking to a ghost at a murder scene, he’s either going crazy, or he’s got a touch of the gift for the supernatural. (by the way, go have some fun with some Midnight Riot themed madlibs here. How everything works, why it works, what to change to make it work differently or better. It’s not that he can’t focus, it’s that he’s interesting in everything. As I’m having flashbacks of Newton’s obsession with Alchemy in Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, Peter is getting marked down on performance reviews for being too easily distracted.
Not unlike Isaac Newton, Probationary Constable Peter Grant asks too many questions.
Why I read it: Rivers of London was all anyone was talking about a few months ago! And it’s the book for my local SF book club.
Midnight Riot (Rivers of London/UK) by Ben Aaronovitch
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