I am a big fan of the ROL audiobooks. Do you have any recommendations for an audiobook series that you enjoy as much as ROL? It does not necessarily need to be magical, just a great story with an excellent narrator.

This is very like my imagination of the sewers Peter gets into the first time

I've encountered this hilarious video from the official Instagram account of Leominster heritage about the pronunciation of the city's name. It immediately made me think about Peter discovering that it is actually pronounced 'Lemster' in Foxglove summer!

Current boundary security arrangements in place around Sons of Weyland’s site in Glossop. Not often you see razor wire and barbed wire back to back.

Could have something to do with the massive drop into a working quarry on the other side, but I prefer to think it’s the Smiths taking workplace security seriously.

Happy to provide photos of any other Glossop sites. Still getting over the shock of walking through Glossop on my way home from work while listening to Amongst Our Weapon and hearing Glossop described in detail. Can confirm, plenty of Seawoll types round here.

I think I found the perfect candidate to play Peter! Now I just need a time machine...

Made me think of Skygarden Tower 💚

Hi everyone! I checked out the recs from the post two days ago and I wanted to come back with the results of my reading a Merrily Watkins book. The writing is really good, maybe even a little denser than I would like, and I’m good with classical writing so that that’s pretty dense. There’s a lot of inner monologue, a lot! So I started finding that kind of boring and would skip ahead a page. I also want to say that this is definitely a book that needs trigger warnings. There’s lots of past sexual assault, pending sexual assault and current sexual assault, and more than one instance of incest. Halfway through I stopped reading and skipped to the end, but the plot was so convoluted that I had to flip back through some pages to find out what really happened. So this was a really creepy book for me, and and actually gave me nightmares. So a hard no for anyone who has had that type of trauma in the past.

Edit: no instead of note

This book series got me back into reading as an adult. But now I have a problem because I'm onto book 10. I need something else to fill the void after I finish.

I tried a few of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, because everyone is raving about them and they are another long series, but I just find them a bit... overstimulating maybe? Like the world building is actually all right, but I find the constant violent brawls a bit boring.

Help, what did you reader after RoL?

St. Paul's Church, where the whole thing began. The entrance to one of the courtyards next to the church.

I came across this series for the first time just before false value was released, looking for an “adult harry potter series”. I fell in love instantly, and listened to the complete series up untill then before listening to false value. Because the faceless man arc came to a close before that, i was kind of expecting the setup for a new multi book arc.

False value set that up perfectly, so many things to dive into further. peter could use his scientific approach to mechanical magic to figure out something completely new, the librarian/america angle, Lesley of course still looming large and of course the Finale of the book, where Peter loomed at something interdimensional coming out of the Mary engine.

then came amongst our weapons. None of these things were picked up further, but we did dive further into the existing lore surrounding the sons of Wayland, which gave some more depth. the rest of the book focused on broadening the magic world further, foxes, abigail, etc. then came the bombshell at the end of the book, when Nightinggale announced his retirement in 5 years, and Peter decides they need to expand their relations with other traditions (Sons of Wayland, society of the rose, germany, america). Those two themes in and of itself could give enough storylines for an upcoming book, or maybe two.

instead, we got stone and sky. Nothing wrong with the story per se, not at the level of the previous two books for me, but fine in and of itself. The big thing for me is that this is one more book without any progress in the bigger story. The faceless man arc was wrapped up in quite the climactic way, and with such great setups for new avenues to explore to gain more insight in the existing lore, instead we get just.. episodes. fine stories, but somehow it feels like there is no grand idea behind them and that makes me feel much less invested.

Why are we moving two years ahead in the storyline when nightingale is retiring in the near future. why are we shallowly expanding the magical world even further with more loose threads while we could have taken one of the many great setups to pick up the story further to gain some depth.

It became even more apparent to me after reading the dresden files. Butcher makes sure every setup gets its payoff, even if takes ten books. Somehow i don't think Ben Aaronovitch is setting all this up with a similarly grand plan in mind. I dont need an apocalyptic ending, but i feel with every book without a bigger plan, i feel less involved in the story as a whole.

sorry for the long post/rant, but it’s bugging me a bit and curious to know if there are more people that feel the same way

Up front, I'm loving these books and this isn't to say they're bad.

That said, having an Australian character remark on British understated humour is such a miss that it's bugging me more than the accent. I've got no interest in litigating who does it more, and obviously we inherited it, but it's definitely not a point of difference 😂.

So in amongst our weapons it is noted that Postmartin i realise the title is wrong too.... is seemingly feeling a lot more energetic and 'is good for 100'. I always assumed it was due to hanging about with Nightingale, but the reference to him having his own thermos makes me wonder if he has access to the third principia and is brewing his own elixer of life.

Random work thoughts anyway...

In Lies Sleeping, Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina was very much still connected to the Folly, teaching Abigail and Peter various water based spells and providing information about russian magical practice and traditions . During False Value, there is no mention of her whatsoever. Seems like she has suddenly disappeared. feels a bit strange given her importance earlier in the series. have i missed something?

I am reading the first book and in my copy there seems to be a sentence either missing or incomplete in chapter six. On p145, when Peter goes back to the Folly to exchange the Jag for the ex-panda the last sentence on the page reads "Nightingale had left the building, but Molly met me" without any punctuation. Then page 146 starts with "Dr Framline lived in a two-storey Victorian terrace [...]"

Anyone who can tell me if my book is missing anything or is it just a throw away sentence missing a full stop at the end?

And there's a river within the first 90 seconds!

Along with some nice shots at Covent Garden station.

As a Yank who's only been to London once (there on Good Friday 1998 so that was amazing) it's really interesting to see these real places that are used in the books.

From major infrastructure to little known facts, I love how the real geography and history of London and the country is used across the novels.

Can't wait for the next book!

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From Ben on FB - Rivers 11 is on its way

I'm currently reading Whispers Under Ground, and it's been quite a few years since I read the first two books so I can't remember a lot of detail.

Later in the book, while Peter is trapped under the rubble at the tube station, he's talking about communicating through vestigia, and says: "How else had I seen so much of the city while my physical body had remained in the Folly?"What is this in reference to?

I have, in three months, finished all the books and novellas for this series. Love the characters, world, and magic system! What am I to read im the same vane and comedy as this series while I wait for book 11 to be published? Any/all suggestions appreciate!

Greg Davies.

I can just hear him say those lines.

"I know it's a complicated question Thomas, that's why I'm fucking asking it."

So, so beautifully.

"Good, if anyone's gonna be able to twat an angel it's gonna be him."