I've been reading the Rivers of London series lately.

[conuly]

It's kinda refreshing to read something set in more or less the real world - less of a learning curve per chapter!

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Comments

[wpadmirer]

I really love the Rivers of London series. It's one I buy each volume immediately upon it becoming available!

[conuly]

A book where the protagonist frequently spends time commenting on the local architecture is 100% my jam. It's right up there with the yak herding in the Lady Trent books. I love this sort of stuff.

[monanotlisa]

And I find Aaronovitch incredibly funny -- not great with all female characters, alas, but just generally so underhandedly humorous that I enjoy the books (plus, I adore Peter as a protagonist).

[silver_chipmunk]

Rivers of London are fantastic!

[conuly]

Is fantastic, surely>?

[silver_chipmunk]

No, I mean the whole series. They are fantastic.

[readerjane]

I love Rivers of London. Imagine, a magic apprentice with a scientific "does it always do that?" bent! A police officer protagonist who thinks the rule of law is a good idea. A series where people who stumble across magic don't get reconned into forgetting it! I could go on.

Also, if anyone's looking for some first class RoL fic, I can recommend these: https://archiveofourown.org/users/lightgetsin/pseuds/lightgetsin/works?fandom_id=301813

[dark_phoenix54]

I love that series SO MUCH. I haven't managed to get hold of the latest one- I'm actually not sure it's out yet; it's been pushed back several times. But.. there is a new series set in the same universe. I read the first one and it's okay, but didn't grab me like the Rivers series. I just love the narrator of that series so very much!

[muninnhuginn]

They're great fun!
Somewhat similar, if you haven't found them already, are Paul Cornell's Shadow Police novels. Possibly slightly darker, same vivid London setting.

[thewayne]

I just resumed reading it, bought a copy of Foxglove Summer a few days ago. My wife has, I think, all of the books - but after getting the first few - before FS - on Kindle, she got them all on audiobook and I don't do those. So I bought it from the Apple book store and broke the DRM. I didn't have to, it's just a general principle thing to make it consistent with my library.