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4 Stars/5
Thanks to Netgalley and Orion Publishing Group for giving
me this book to review.
Suspicious deaths are happening, places are being blown
up, and it seems that Lady Tyburn’s daughter is involved. Peter owes Lady Ty a favour, which she is
calling in to hide her daughter’s involvement, and it seems that Lesley and The
Faceless Man are part of the whole mess too.
How will Peter, and his boss Nightingale, survive this magical mayhem?
I really enjoyed this book, as I also did the previous
books, because Ben Aaronovitch brings a lot of humour and local knowledge to
what should be everyday policing situation.
However, when River Goddesses, and others of the magical community are
involved, and the investigating officers are a wizard and his apprentice, what
starts off as everyday, rapidly turns into anything but!
Peter Grant is a brilliant main character. He is a very down to earth person who tries
to quantify magic scientifically. He is
a very multidimensional character, who has other interests outside of policing
and magic – he is interested in science, history and architecture, and is
dating Beverley Brook, one of the River Goddesses, a tributary of Mother
Thames.
I enjoyed The Hanging Tree, it feels as if it was written
for the Harry Potter generation, where magic has grown up a bit, and it also
has Terry Pratchett style humour which makes you laugh out loud. I would recommend this book to fans of the
previous Ben Aaronovitch books, also to fans of Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde,
and grown-up Harry Potter fans.
