This series is not anything close to a certain magical wonder child.

Let me deal with one potential comparison right now. His final plan is in motion and the Met has to stop him magic or no magic. They both have learned a lot from each other but they have plenty more to learn and The Faceless Man – The main overall villain of the series to date – has to be dealt with. He’s a witty and incredibly geeky modern day policeman compared to Nightingale’s upper class Englishman. Peter as a character is absolutely brilliant. He’s still a little sensitive about that) but able to handle himself. Still ‘incident prone’(don’t ask about what happened at Kew Gardens. It acts as the finale to the current arc in the series and by this point Peter is a lot more knowledgeable. Huzzah for Peter Grant, who just finished his training alongside a close friend…and who just took a statement from a ghost.Ĭomparatively audiobook 7 is a lot more intense.

DI Thomas Nightingale: Britain’s only officially trained wizard. In audiobook number one the entire unit is one man. In simple terms the SAU deals with anything magical ranging from the ancient gods of the Rivers to vampires to a lot of old customs that have considerably more power than the average everyday person realises. The basic idea of the series is relatively simple: Imagine the Metropolitan Police Service had a ‘Special Assessment Unit’ or a ‘Falcon’ team. I was introduced to him personally through a Doctor Who classic, ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ – this won’t be the only mention of the Time Lord in this column – and when I first realised the Rivers of London was his writing I had to get the first audiobook in the series. Ben Aaronovitch is a writer who can make you understand his characters after just one chapter with them. The Rivers of London series is very much a personal favourite of mine.

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