Midnight Riot

With a prompt to read a book written about England, I dove into this book. It has been sitting on my toread pile for a LONG time (and actually was a bit surprised that the name had changed from Rivers of London to Midnight Riot, so it took me a while to find it).

I was hugely surprised by this book. Part mystery, part fantasy... all soaked in some magical realism. I loved the idea that everyone has magic as a part of their make-up. I know from reading some less than favorable blogs about how the author writes about women, which was a nice warning. It did also make that part stand out to me. Women were all highly sexualized but not to the point that it made me cringe like some other fantasy writers.

The way you chase down magic is through smells, which is awesome. And also... really amazing fodder for literary candle companies. I'm surprised I haven't found Rivers of London themed candles yet.

I ended up doing a combination of reading and listening and the audiobook is SUPERB. I loved the voices the narrator was doing, the accents.