Sounds quite brilliant, Georgie. Shall order forthwith. The Clockwork City is never less than entertaining, although I do have to skip over the really gory bits. Not through any sense of being offended – there’s really only so much dismembering, decapitating and vapourising than a chap can take before getting bored. Another annoying detail – he never describes the appearance of any female characters. (??)
Almost feel like someone took Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London characters and added Hollywood bangs and crashes. Shame. Have I mentioned Rivers before? Really is a cracking series, got into it by accident. Hint of H Potter type magic normally turns me off but the lead character is an almost dead ringer for our son-in-law – uniform PC working out of Charing Cross nick, had to read it. Then just got hooked, along with two daughters!