Foxglove Summer

Executive Summary: I feel like I'm starting to lose a bit of steam with this series. I enjoyed it, but not as much as some of the previous book. 3.5 Stars

Audiobook: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is fantastic. Again. Full Stop. Do this in audio. That is all.

Full Review
After the end of the previous book I was really looking forward to this one. Unfortunately Mr. Aaronovitch decided to mostly ignore everything he set up in that book and tell a mostly stand alone story set in the same world.

I listened to most of this book in one sitting during a 7 hour car ride, and it took me many miles to warm up to it. I think if I had other things going on, I'd have been a lot more distracted.

Like previous books it got a lot better as it went on, but I feel like things were dragging out too much. It's starting to feel like the series has no real overall plot and is just going to be as many wizard detective stories as he can crank out before fans get tired of it.

Maybe I'm being a bit overly critical. It's not as if I didn't like the book overall, but I tend to struggle with Urban Fantasy in general and I think all the things that made this series stand out were mostly missing from this entry. If this was book 1 and not book 5, I'd probably not have continued on with the series.

As it stands, I'll probably hold off on picking up the next volume for awhile until I need another light read.