Rivers of London

With a great flow (no pun intended) of funny prose we dive (again n.p.i.) into a highly interesting world.

Another recommendation from my wonderful wife that I enjoyed a great deal. The writing is funny, the story is compelling and the way magic is approached with a scientific mindset is refreshing and interesting. Being the first book in a continuing series it does its job very well, sucking you into the world, telling you a good story and leaving you intrigued and wanting to know more.

All this praise notwithstanding, I feel I should mention that at one point I almost stopped reading when I felt the voice of the first-person narrator slipped into uncomfortable diction. That point was when I read the following...

"The voice belonged to a plump round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide."

Also, a bit later, when a character is described as a "terrifying lesbian" I cringed again and question the intent behind such words.

After brooding about this for a bit, with English not being my native language and with people I know would not tolerate misogyny having read the book and not having issues with it, I decided to give the author the benefit of the doubt here and read on.


Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch 
My goodreads-rating: 4 of 5 stars