I got turned onto Ben Aaronovitch’s London occult fantasy police novel Midnight Riot (for some reason, the book’s title got changed from Rivers of London for the American version) by Kate Ashwin* of Widdershins, which is by the way an excellent webcomic that you should read if you’re into 19th Century urban fantasy written by somebody who doesn’t hate the 19th Century. …But I digress; I’m about a quarter through the book so far, and I put it down to write this because if I don’t break off now I’ll just read the whole thing in one shot and I still have things that I have to do today. So, yes, it qualifies for Book of the Week. The real trouble will be in pacing myself, I think.
And so, adieu to Anno Dracula. I incline to London-based fantasy sometimes, no?
*Turns out, I should have listened to one of my readers on this. Mea culpa: Christmas is an easy time for me to lose track of stuff.
Between Delta Green and Larry Corriea’s new series starting up, my entertainment budget is already spoken for.
Widdershins is a lot of fun. And speaking of London-based Urban Fantasy [modern age, not 19th century] I highly recommend A Madness of Angels.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Madness-Angels-Matthew-Swift/dp/0316068594
Are you going to read the sequels to Anno Dracula?
“Going to?” I started buying them in hardback a while back. 🙂
Just a reminder of a classic (series): by the by, she is the daughter of Conrad Aiken.
and, yes, it says children’s but it is just too fun.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a children’s novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1962.[1] Set in an alternative history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp.
The novel is the first in the Wolves Chronicles, a series of books set during the fictional early-19th century reign of King James III. A large number of wolves have migrated from the bitter cold of Europe and Russia into Britain via a new “channel tunnel”, and terrorise the inhabitants of rural areas.
1. I’d never heard of Conrad Aiken.
2. Her ‘Midnight Is A Place’ is partly responsible for me being anti-union.
3. I don’t think I heard of those last two Dido/Wolves books. Do you know if they are as bad as Limbo Lodge/Dangerous Games turned out?
Have you read “The Anubis Gates” by Tim Powers?
…Shoot, I’ve read the Tim Powers stuff that Tim Powers kind of winces about now. 🙂