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Yes, Midnight Riot is the US title of Rivers of London, which I will one day get around to reading. The second book has been on offer in the UK all month, and I picked that up too, so I hope I like the first one.
I finished E C Tubb's The Winds of Gath. It was a reasonably entertaining old-school pulpy planetary sci-fi story. I don't think I'm too bothered about reading the other 32 books in the series.
Instead of going back to Crown of Slaves, I decided to read my Kindle lending library book before I can borrow a new one tomorrow, so I'm reading the second Doctrine of Labyrinths book by Sarah Monette, The Virtu. It's a slightly twisted fantasy following on from the first book, Melusine, as the two brothers, wizard Felix and thief Mildmay head back to the city to try to fix the damage Felix did at the start of book 1. I'm finding this one a bit more teenaged than the first, as people misinterpret something someone says and then sulk for a hundred pages, but I still enjoy the richness and depth of the world. The third and fourth books don't seem to be available in the UK - I thought I'd wait until I'd finished book 2 before contacting the publisher in case books 1 and 2 shouldn't be available - but as I understand it this one does complete the first story. I should finish this in a couple of days, and then I'll be able to get back to the Honorverse and finish Crown of Slaves.
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