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A review by cecesloth
Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
5.0
The gut punch at the end of Book 4 necessitated a change of tone to let us know that not everything will turn out right in the end. Boy oh boy does Aaronovitch deliver, sliding effortlessly into the stripped-back child-involved sub-genre of crime thriller fiction that has dominated recently.
There is an obvious cloud hanging over everything here, and the tension that builds by it going unaddressed is excruciating, until Peter finally unleashes about halfway through the book in a beautiful and angsty moment reminiscient of Ben's DW New Adventures. The catharsis is incredible.
More painful still is knowing that a particular phone call is just around the corner, and when it finally happened I was left genuinely fearful for the future of my favourite characters. It's not quite Roz going up the hill into glory, but it stings.
Final thoughts:
- I'm not entirely sure that I understand the ending, but I think that is a feature, not a bug
- It's amazing that the twist I know fromJordan Peele's Us was actually published here five years earlier.
-Goddamn that part in the river sounds like such a great time
There is an obvious cloud hanging over everything here, and the tension that builds by it going unaddressed is excruciating, until Peter finally unleashes about halfway through the book in a beautiful and angsty moment reminiscient of Ben's DW New Adventures. The catharsis is incredible.
More painful still is knowing that a particular phone call is just around the corner, and when it finally happened I was left genuinely fearful for the future of my favourite characters. It's not quite Roz going up the hill into glory, but it stings.
Final thoughts:
- I'm not entirely sure that I understand the ending, but I think that is a feature, not a bug
- It's amazing that the twist I know from
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