![]() ![]() SF Revu Aaronovitch has a very witty, casual voice, with a tendency toward sarcasm and humor, which is threaded throughout Broken Homes. Posted in Reviews, A Few Thoughts On and tagged Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London on 17th March 2021 by Michael. Aaronovitch makes the story sing, building momentum until the ending is literally breathless. Aaronovitch coupled the idea of the breezy police procedural with that well-worked fantasy trope of secret London, creating a small and obscure special unit. ![]() Along the way she meets and befriends a slightly strange boy called Simon, does her very best to avoid as much adult involvement as possible, and makes good use of a small army of talking foxes. In 1939, Tailors Machiner and Unpaid Domestic Duties were the top reported jobs for men and women in the United Kingdom named Aaronovitch. ![]() What Abigail is doing, it turns out, is engaging in an unofficial investigation of her own to work out why teenagers are going briefly missing on Hampstead Heath only to reappear, somewhat confused, back with their families. ![]() I’ve been reading and loving Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series ever since I picked up the first book in a London Waterstones back in 2011, but his 2021 novella What Abigail Did That Summer might just be the most fun I’ve ever had with this series! It’s set at the same time as Foxglove Summer, and explores what young Abigail Kamara – not yet a trainee wizard herself, but getting there – is doing while Peter Grant is up in Herefordshire searching for missing girls. ![]()
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