I finished Amongst Our Weapons by @baaronovitch and it immediately started floating round the house! I loved this story. This is the 12th book in the Rivers of London (or Peter Grant) series and returning to it is like a warm blanket! As an individual novel this book is a solid story. It’s a decent murder mystery that develops from a simple locked room drama into a full blown conspiracy involving a religious cult from the 80s, the Spanish Inquisition and the North! The work that Aaronovitch is doing in developing the series, however, is incredible. The characters have evolved in numerous ways from the first book, which is precisely what you want from a long-running series, but Aaronovitch strikes the right balance with all of them. In a series that deals with a varying menagerie of different magical elements the real quality is the humanity that everyone has, magical or non-magical. The temptation with a lot of “urban-fantasy” (as this series has often been pigeonholed into) is to heighten the magical side to contrast with the mundanity of the humans but Aaronovitch is able to make the magical mundane in a way that complements the police procedural side of the stories. You could genuinely believe there is an branch of the Met police that has to deal with “weird bollocks” and that Aaronovitch is simply writing fan-fiction about it. With an easy prose style, humour and an abundance of mysteries to solve, I’d recommend this book and series to anyone who always thought that Practhett’s Watch series would do well in a modern day setting! @gollancz #bookstagram #books #riversoflondon #petergrant #amongstourweapons https://www.instagram.com/p/Cofp-JVsPBA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
