Foxglove Summer

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English language

Published Nov. 13, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-575-13250-4
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5 stars (2 reviews)

When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved.

It’s purely routine—Nightingale, Peter’s superior, thinks he’ll be done in less than a day. But Peter’s never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the help they can get.

But because the universe likes a joke as much as the next sadistic megalomaniac, Peter soon comes to realize that dark secrets underlie the picturesque fields and villages of the countryside and there might just be work for Britain’s most junior wizard after all.

Soon Peter’s in a vicious race against time, in a world where the boundaries between reality and fairy have never been less clear....

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reviewed Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

Review of 'Foxglove Summer' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

An angry, invisible, carniverous, cart horse sized unicorn called princess Luna. What’s not to love?

Great fun. I think Aaronovitch is back on form with this one. It's full of wry humour and funny cultural references (I like the way that he drops them in and doesn't explain them). All of the new characters are great, but it's great to see so much of Beverly Brook again. As a bonus it’s set 25 miles from where I grew up.

A couple of gripes; it stalls slightly in the middle (but picks up again fast) and the ending felt tagged on (as if he couldn't think of a clever way to wrap things up) . I love Beverley’s character and the fact that she’s not to be messed with, but after such a clever and interesting book it was a shame that the ending was uninspired. 

reviewed Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

Review of 'Foxglove Summer' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

And he bloody well does it again ... if you know Ben Aaronvitch, you'll also know he's behind two of the very best Dr. Who serials ever ('Remembrance of the Daleks' and 'Battlefield'), and that he's been an excellent reason to read New Adventure books and listen to Big Finish audio dramas. And if you didn't know, you do now.

It is therefor I boggle. 'cause he does this again and again: write excellent books. Truly excellent, not the current, inflation-ridden 'excellent' thrown out too often to convince a body something was worth paying money for.

No, this book has all the bases covered (it's well-written, with good spelling and prose; the plot is internally consistent, and not a single veggiesaurus is in sight), the story put down and bedded in, and the characters very nicely thrown out of their comfortable little slots and into the big, and in the …