False Value: Book 8 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series (A Rivers of London novel)

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I was tempted to tell her that we had a book in our library that had to be restrained from roaming around the Folly on its own, but I didn't trust her enough to be giving away state secrets just to big up my ends. He will always be the voice I hear in my head when I think about Peter Grant, and I'm so glad that he enjoys working on the series and is committed to continuing as its narrator as I'd be gutted if they ever had to replace him. Aaronovitch showcases a superlative blend of whimsy and grit in the eighth Rivers of London urban fantasy…. 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.

From the very start, we get knee-deep in many Douglas Adams homages almost immediately after getting a very emotional reference bot Bowie. JavaScript uses type conversion to coerce any value to a Boolean in contexts that require it, such as conditionals and loops.Some we receive from the authors, some we receive from the publisher, and some we receive through a third party service like Net Galley. His inner monolgue still meanders into the obscure from time to time, but I find that I don't mind it much when these obscure trivia end up helping him solve the case. Once I realised this (which took far longer than it ought to have done) it became much easier to follow. It’s hard to say much about the story because of spoilers, but there was a twist I guessed at ahead of time, too.

Things are popping up that the reader has no idea where they came from, and not in the "First time the characters see it" sort of way, but in the "We encountered this previously" way. I also felt like there was a lot of ret-conning about Bev’s Russian thug who is now her one (and only–parenthetical always added) acolyte. As a series wends on, satisfying the readerly demand of "each one different from all the others" grows almost as hard to satisfy as "each one better than all the others.Janine Ballard loves well-paced, character-driven novels in romance, fantasy, YA, and the occasional outlier genre. I've griped about his ineptitude in previous books, and so to see him thinking and acting swiftly while on the go is very satisfying, and I've been waiting for this day to come for what felt like forever. The narrative time shifts that make up the first third of the book remain challenging in audio, but having read the book previously, I was prepared and this time, they made more sense. 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. Sometimes when I put my ear against the Bulge [Bev’s stomach] and closed my eyes I’d swear I could hear the twins singing.