Hopefully, a second listen-through can redeem it, but there is no way that should be a thing for an urban fantasy. I begged for them to stop - and for context, here are a couple of shirts that I actually own and proudly wear: - Has Peter always been this. That he so appreciates the value of the audio editions is wonderful, as a listener, because it all helps combat the snobbishness that still lingers around the format when compared to print. I just mentally checked out at the 50 percent mark to just finish this book to have it count towards a book bingo I am doing. This is a glimpse of what I would have liked to see in the event he and Martin Chorley go head-to-head, but of course that’s not a possibility anymore… or is it?

And while the story is slightly different than our usual Rivers outing, it makes a lot of sense in Peter’s world. Still not clear on the central mystery of this installment though, but I wasn’t too bothered as almost everything else about the story was enjoyable. We’re now on the eighth installment of the Rivers of London series, and as much as I’ve enjoyed my time with the Faceless Man arc, I also felt it was high time we moved onto something new.I went back to read some of the earlier books in the series and was struck by how much I enjoyed them. And a good thing too, because his job is to infiltrate the personnel and root out the identity of the employee trying to gain forbidden entry into the company’s most classified project.

So good that I'm no longer side-eyeing all those other things Ben Aaronovitch worked on last year instead of this book.Which leads us to Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers, and the Mary Engine mentioned briefly in a previous book but I've forgotten which one, could be a novella, which is why I'm writing everything down this time. We still have mention of all the river gods and goddesses and an underground history of magic practitioners.