Tracy's Reviews > Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

This is a bit uneven but overall very enjoyable. Three and a half stars rounded up to four.

The Home Crowd Advantage is just ok. Three stars.

The Domestic also just ok. Two stars.

The Cockpit made me a bit uncomfortable. Two stars.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Granny. Sweet, three stars.

King of the Rats. Another one that made me uncomfortable, two stars.

A Rare Book of Cunning Device is delightful. Set in a library. Really fun. Four stars.

I was really beginning to think short fiction is just not Ben Aaronovitch’s thing when I got to the second half of the book.

A Dedicated Follower of Fashion. Quite fun, a drug escort in the sixties finds a baby River in his basement, names her Wanda and opens a boutique. Three and a half stars.

Favourite Uncle. I loved this one, Abigail is one of my favourite characters and it was delightful reading a story from her point of view. Four stars.

Vanessa Sommer’s Other Christmas List. I haven’t met Vanessa yet in anything else, but I quite liked this. Three stars.

Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby. Adored this. It was nice to see what happened to the River Lugg and also Dominic and Victor. Five stars.

The Moments: I’ve grouped these together, they are so brief it is hard to classify them. Having just listened to the first six novels on Audible I find they make more sense than when I read them a couple of weeks ago before I listened to them. I’d give them as a group three stars. I did like that they gave me a glimpse into the lives of Nightingale, Reynolds and Tobias Winter. Now onto Lies Sleeping.