by NRB | 8 Nov 2016 | SFF |
Vigil makes a very rich pudding. Neil Gaiman and Ben Aaronovitch have both blended crime and fantasy in a very seductive fashion and Angela Slatter has done the same with this tale of the crimes that result from a clash of the Weyrd and the Normal, set in...
by NRB | 14 Aug 2014 | SFF |
This police-procedural urban fantasy is a celebration of contemporary and mythological London. Broken Homes is the fourth in the wonderful Rivers of London series. Rivers of London, Music of Soho, and Whispers Underground are the first three. It would be possible,...
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