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False Value (Rivers of London, #8)

Ben Aaronovitch

Start date: December 1, 2019

Finish date: December 31, 2019

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Feb 06, 2022 Sandra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paperback, mystery-suspense, pnr-uf, library-books, witch-magic-fae

Whilst this book follows on closely from the previous book Lies Sleeping it's done, for the first part in a flashback fashion. I'm not sure why, and I found it less, rather than intriguing.

Peter, apprentice wizard has made Detective Constable in the Folly, but is sent on an undercover mission to check on anything "weird" on the premises of a secretive billionaire tech company owner, Terrence Skinner. And of course he finds plenty of weirdness.

He also trips over "The Librarians" of the New York P ...more

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Apr 04, 2025 Midu Hadi rated it liked it

Shelves: humor, reviewed, physical-copies, instaposted, read-in-2025, middlers, hauntings-and-ghosts, magick, magical-objects, supes

Quick-look at the Book
Peter is about to be a dad. He's also going undercover to a tech billionaire's firm where something wonky's happening. There are some funny scenes as he tries to figure what the wonkiness is. And thank god, the Faceless Man is gone.

Thoughts on this Series
A blend of police procedural with magic, wit, and humor. I love Peter because he's slowly and realistically getting better at what he does and yet he doesn't think it makes him the shit. He's appropriately fanboying over t ...more

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Oct 28, 2025 Chompa rated it liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, audiobook, 2025

A solid entry in the series. This story didn't grab me like others have, but I did like finding out about The Librarians from New York City - another magical organization. ...more

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Dec 19, 2021 Andrea (mrsaubergine) rated it it was amazing

The start of a new larger story arc features librarians, tech billionaires - and kudos to Kobna for his believable Australian accent in the audiobook - and more Hitchhikers references than you can thrown a towel over. Sadly, I have now caught up with the series. Looking forward to the next book in the new year.

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