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Originally Posted by Andy_T
Short interruption of the wait for the next Dresden book ...
... has anybody read "Rivers of London" (or "Midnight Riot" as it was published in the US) by Ben Aaronovitch?...
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Originally Posted by Abtacha
Thank you for reminding me of that, had it already sitting in my TBR pile and started reading it yesterday. I like it quite a bit so far.
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Ahh...the reference to London influenced me to remember and start on the book I'm reading right now,
Cursed (Alex Verus #2) by Benedict Jacka. Some time ago Jim Butcher mentioned this author/series in an interview and I gave the first one in the series,
Fated (Alex Verus #1) a read, liked it a lot and put the rest of the series on my TBR list:
Fated (2012)
Cursed (2012)
Taken (2012)
Chosen, slated for September 2013
On the cover of Fated is this text:
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'Books this good remind me
why I got into the storytelling
business in the first place'
JIM BUTCHER
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...and in the book is this paragrapth:
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Those of us who do like visitors have to advertise, and it’s tricky to find a way of doing it that doesn’t make you sound crazy. The majority rely on word of mouth, though younger mages use the internet. I’ve even heard of one guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under ‘Wizard’, though that’s probably an urban legend. Me, I have my shop. Wiccans and pagans and New-Agers are common enough nowadays that people accept the idea of a magic shop, or at least they understand that the weirdos have to buy their stuff from somewhere. Of course, they take for granted that it’s all a con and that the stuff in my shop is no more magical than an old pair of socks, and for the most part they’re right. But the stuff in my shop that isn’t magical is good camouflage for the stuff that is, like the thing sitting upstairs in a little blue lacquered cylinder that can grant any five wishes you ask. If that ever got out, I’d have much worse problems than the occasional snigger.
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...and on the cover of Cursed is this text:
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"Harry Dresden would like
Alex Verus tremendously--
and be a little nervous
around him.
I just added Benedict Jacka
to my must-read list"
--JIM BUTCHER
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Benedict Jacka's website is
here.
