Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

May 27, 2022 Marcella rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: did-not-finish, fiction, 2022-100-book-challenge, fantasy

DNF. This should be My Type Of Book (modern London fantasy) but at 28% I was bored with the flat prose, wondering what the actual plot was, and why it was so sexist given that it was published in 2011. Skimming other reviews it seems the book does not improve, so I quit. It's not helpful to this book that I just finished a reread of my favorite Terry Pratchett books, and it's so unfair to compare anyone to that colossus of fiction, but it just highlighted the importance of story craft, which thi ...more

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Jul 10, 2017 Krissy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lawlz, audiobook, pgs-300-399

Snarky and fun. Plus the narrator of the audiobook was absolutely amazing.

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Jan 04, 2023 Ketutar Jensen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, fantasy-challenge

First read of 2023 :-)

I fear I'll never see Punch and Judy the same way...

I liked it a lot!
It was funny without being comical, I love the magical, mythical, and mystical part of it.
The opera part was scary.
I liked the solution. ...more

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Feb 20, 2018 Nikki rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries, kindle, books-set-in-england, fiction, fantasy

Published in the UK as Rivers of London, this is the first in a series of unusual paranormal mysteries. I say unusual because so far (I'm only now reading the second book) there are no vampires! There's also quite a bit of humor, which is quite refreshing. The Rivers of London (and north of London for that matter) do make an appearance as characters. Constable Peter Grant is anticipating a rather boring life in the police, when it turns out he can communicate with ghosts. This means that he ends ...more

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