Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant, #5)

Posted on 04 October 2017 by Ben Aaronovitch

In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children But while you can take the London copper out of London you can t take the London out of the copper.Travelling west with Beverley Brook, Peter soon finds himself caught up in a deep mystery and having to tackle local cops and local gods And what s all the shops are closed by 4pm Free Read [ Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant, #5) ] author [ Ben Aaronovitch ] – kino-fada.fr I continue to love this series Great main character Great voice Great mix of mystery and resolution Great mix of short and long term story lines.Really, there s nothing here I don t like And given how critical I can be, I hope you all realize h...I haven t yet been able to review a Peter Grant book immediately after finishing I suppose I m basking in book afterglow Once again, Aaronovitch writes an engrossing, unpredictable urban fantasy, perhaps his best yet.A good story, a generous sprinkling of dark police humor, decent police procedural all combine for a read that fully occupied my Sunday afternoon Chuckles as I started Sarcasm about family I sighed poli...There s weird shit, I said And we deal with the weird shit, but normally it turns out that there s a perfectly rational explanation Which is often that a wizard did it. By now Ben Aaronovitch s Peter Grant series has clearly found its footing and has definitely established itself in the world of urban fantasy in all its refreshing quirkiness and nerdiness, and even got to a point when it needs to take a break from itself and take a quick interlude, a countryside detour, and learn that somThere s weird shit, I said And we deal with the weird shit, but normally it turns out that there s a perfectly rational explanation Which is often that a wizard did it. By now Ben Aaronovitch s Peter Grant series has clearly found its footing and has definitely established itself in the world of urban fantasy in all its refreshing quirkiness and nerdiness, and even got to a point when it needs to take a break from itself and take a quick interlude, a countryside detour, and learn that sometimes landscapes can replace architecture quite well.Peter Grant, the perpetually self deprecatingly snarky and magically inclined constable of the Folly, the Metropolitan Police X Files , a subunit dealing with all the supernatural occurrences that cannot be simply reasoned out even though a wizard did it can be indeed a quite reasonable explanation , has been called on duty outside of London to the countryside to investigate a suspi...Lemonade and ice BBQ and ribs Mac and cheese Salt and caramel Some things are perfect complements of flavor Holbrook Smith s voice acting and Aaronovitch s words are the ultimate combination, the Ben Jerry s of the book world This is the first series where audio has really demonstrated it s value for me, a fast reader Prior to this, I ve tried Evonovitch, a Harry Potter book and one or two others An Alas, Babylon convinced me of the value of continuing to give the medium a try, so Lemonade and ice BBQ and ribs Mac and cheese Salt and caramel Some things are perfect complements of flavor Holbrook Smith s voice acting and Aaronovitch s words are the ultimate combination, the Ben Jerry s of the book world This is the first series where audio has really demonstrated it s value for me, a fast reader Prior to this, I ve tried Evonovitch, a Harry Potter book and one or two others An Alas, Babylon convinced me of the value of continuing to give the medium a try, so I finally dipped my toes into the Peter Grant series, and by Moon Over Soho, I was swimming in the deep end.Something special happened with this book and the last I m actually getting a glimpse of the the multi book arc Before, I didn t understand Peter s fascination with Ettersburg, but with a little insight from Mr Hugh, it is starting to become clear as well as who the Faceless Man might b...4.25ish stars.Perhaps my favorite of the series so far not least because it s made the most sense One of the only issues I have with the series is the general lack of cohesion from book to book This is a personal preference but I favor focus in my police procedurals as opposed totrue to real life stories following several plots and going on adventures that aren t necessarily relevant to the plot even if they do widen the universe and the characterizations I thought the mystery here 4.25ish stars.Perhaps my favorite of the series so far not least because it s made the most sense One of the only issues I have with the series is the general lack of cohesion from book to book This is a personal preference but I favor focus in my police procedurals as...ATTENTION SPECULATIVE FICTION FANS DROP WHAT YOU RE DOING, SAVE YOUR PAGE ON THE BOOK YOU RE READING.GO GET ALL THE BEN AARONOVITCH PETER GRANT BOOKS AND READ THEM ALL Just finished his 2014 novel, and fifth in the series, Foxglove Summer and I immediately had ready book six The Hanging Tree as well as the 5.5 novella The Furthest Station.Not since Kevin Hearne s Iron Druid series have I been so enad of a stor...Well, that was fun.Readers who don t know the series should not start here, but rather, with the first book, Rivers of London or, in its US retitling, Midnight Riot.Readers who do know the series should not get spoilers, which leaves me with not much to say by way of a review I liked this a lot, both in the new scenery and material specific to this volume, and the interstitial carrying along of the larger series story arc, which is starting to take shape nicely I want to reread it soon, but I Well, that was fun.Readers who don t know the series should not start here, but rather, with the first book, Rivers of London or, in its US retitling, Midnight Riot.Readers who do know the series should not get spoilers, w...Posted to The Literary Lawyer.ca Aaronovitch Shakes it Up 5 Stars Aaronovitch does the right thing for this series He takes the main character out of the city, puts some of the ongoing and unanswered questions on the shelf and make Peter Grant shine on his own The story structure is a marked departure from the first four books but, in my opinion, is one of the best in the series Plot summary In the British countryside, a couple of children have gone missing Peter Grant s governor send Posted to The Literary Lawyer.ca Aaronovitch Shakes it Up 5 Stars Aaronovitch does the right thing for this series He takes the main character out of the city, puts some of the ongoing and unanswered questions on the shelf and make Peter Grant shine on his own The story structure is a marked departure from the first four books but, in my opinion, is one of the best in the se...This continues to be one of the very best UF series out there for a very good reason It s always the careful attention to detail Proper if you re a copper.Honestly, I think this one might have hit me in the feels eventhan the previous ones even though the last book s zinger was a doozy I think it had everything to do with the fact it was a massive hunt for missing children.Even the magical copper was called in for this one, and good thing, too.So many of the great reveals in this myst This continues to be one of the very best UF series out there for a very good reason It s always the careful attention to detail Proper if you re a copper.Honestly, I think this one might have hit me in the feels eventhan the previous ones even though the last book s zinger wa...5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum are only a few urban fantasy series I would drop everything for, and this is one of them So when Foxglove Summer arrived on my doorstep, I did exactly that every other book that was on my plate got put on hold while I set forth to devour this one Move over, The Boy Who Lived , for when it comes to my favorite British wizard, his name is Peter Grant.Foxglove Summer may the fifth installment of the series, but it 5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum are only a few urban fantasy series I would drop everything for, and this is one of them So when Foxglove Summer arrived on my doorstep, I did exactly that every other book that was on my plate got put on hold while I set forth to devour this one Move over, The Boy Who Lived , for when it comes to my favorite British wizard, his name is Peter Grant.Foxglove Summer may the fifth installment of the series, but it s still going strong While I hardly ever recommend starting in the middle of a series, I suppose if you ve been mig...

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04 October 2017

Ben Aaronovitch