If we had to have a fake (also younger and German) Peter Grant, Kinda like when Serena would visit Bewitched.Aaronovitch could at least have named him Dieter so we could remember his name easily.Too often, new wunderkind Tobi just sounds like Peter transported mysteriously to a German life. There's too much paperwork in policing! Everything has an acronym name! Plus everything has a funny seven-syllable German name that ends in "-er" or "- en," too! (A joke that stopped being funny way too early...

Tobi Winter, the protagonist of this book, is the German equivalent of Peter Grant. This novel is, so to speak, the pork-knuckle-with-sauerkraut-variant of the stories about the Folly and Peter Grant.Tobi, the German sorcerer's apprentice, is called to investigate a seemingly strange murder in the vineyards of Trier. The general conditions are also very reminiscent of the Peter Grant books. There is the German equivalent of the Folly, magical events and beings and also the obligatory river gods

The author has taken his urban fantasies to a new locale. This time the detective who searches for signs of magic at crime scenes is Tobias Winter and he’s in Germany. Unfortunately, he’s not as sharp or amusing as Peter Grant. The river goddess is also a pale imitation of her London counterparts. In truth, I didn’t not see the need to tell basically the same story about vestigia and river gods but just use a different country and character. I also found the plot confusing. One of the characters...

IT'S GOT A COVER.from Gollanz https://www.gollancz.co.uk/2018/11/26...* * * * *4.5 starsAh, so this is what it's like to follow a magically competent police detective around on a case and not royally messing things up along the way. I get it now. More stories like this please and thank you in advance.

Yes, I know. I hardly believe my rating either. Listening--as opposed to my usual reading speed--exposes the fact that the first four or so chapters are largely a re-explanation of things we already know from the seven book Peter Grant series. Unfortunately, details aren't quickly summarized, and as far as I can tell, almost everything Peter Grant has learned in the first few books is included. Details on rivers, shields, magic returning, Latin, the history of magic users, political organization...

Ah, that was fun, and just the right size story for its length, a generously portioned novella.Readers of the Rivers of London series should find lots of familiar tropes in an unfamiliar setting. I very much enjoyed getting to see some of what is going on with the resurgence of magic in other parts of the world, and of course can't help wondering if it will ever intersect with the main series. Also very curious about the Director. New readers should be able to read it as a stand-alone contempora...

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!So this little gem of a novella takes place in the same world as the Rivers of London, but in Germany instead, and features a new main character in a similar role as Peter Grant there in Germany. The mystery/police procedural with magic worked well for this novel, and we got to meet a few new characters that I'd love to see make appearances in the main series novels.After the end of the

4 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum https://bibliosanctum.com/2019/03/11/...With Lies Sleeping ending with the final showdown between Peter Grant and his archnemesis the Faceless Man, bringing a seven-book story arc to a close, fans are wondering where the Rivers of London series will be going from here. Rumor is that Peter will be back, but in the meantime, we get to whet our appetites with a spinoff novella called The October Man.Providing readers with some much-needed breathing space following

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.” – Goethe“I drank what??” – SocratesLet me just begin by saying that I’ve been anxiously awaiting any new story from Ben Aaronovitch since 2018 Lies Sleeping. Peter Grant is one of the coolest urban fantasy protagonists practicing these days and Aaronovitch’s world building is maybe THE best, and I’ve read Harry Dresden, Jane Yellowrock and the Iron Druid series. What really sets these apart is his wink and nod minimalism, these are snappy police procedurals...

6/10Ah a short story, my eternal struggle with this format continues. To be fair, there wasn't much helping me out in this one though. This felt like a bit of a pointless exercise unless the whole purpose was to set things up for later books. I avoided the audiobook (which with Kobna absent was a no brainer) and went the old fashioned way (thanks Mr. Library, very kind) but there isn't much to write home about here. The main guy doesn't differ enough from Peter to make it worthwhile, it feels li...

I absolutely loved this Rivers of London novella. It's tightly plotted, exciting, intriguing and funny. I really, really like new protagonists Tobias and Vanessa and I can't wait to see how they end up interacting with the regular cast in future installments! How long 'til book eight, again? Too long!

This is the second novella published from the world of Peter Grant (Rivers of London - depending on whose listing you look at). However this is set in Germany, now it is most certainly from the same world but there are only fleeting references to the main series. Now the story itself is as usually just as engrossing and fun as ever however how you are being introduced to not only a new group of characters but a different country and most certainly a different way approaching things. This leads t...

Rivers of London reset. I enjoyed this very much despite the names and the overly large gaps between my reading sessions making it difficult for me to model either the timeline or suspect list in my head. The characters here are not drawn in any great depth, nor is the plot particularly fresh. It's very much the same formula as a typical Peter Grant adventure, only with different, German, characters in the roles, but I think that's fine. Variations on same are the point of this sort of series. W...

Excellent! Aaronovitch's prose and especially humour really work for me.