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A review by zefrog
What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
4.0
A cute YA spin off to the Rivers of London series focusing on Abigail Kamara, a young mixed-race teen who Peter Grant (the hero of the main series) has taken under his wings. Though written and published several years and books later, the story takes place at the same time as the action of [b:Foxglove Summer|20499240|Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)|Ben Aaronovitch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1402338677l/20499240._SY75_.jpg|34142449].
The book offers the same enjoyable mix of supernatural fun (complete with talking urban foxes) that reader of Aaronovitch have come to expect, without the death and the gore.
My only reservation comes from the language. Dropping the odd term of yoof speak and agrammatical phrasing in otherwise straight forward prose doesn't quite create the illusion that Abigail is really the one telling the story. If anything it jars so much as to remind the reader of the fact that those aren't really her words.
Still a fun read though.
The book offers the same enjoyable mix of supernatural fun (complete with talking urban foxes) that reader of Aaronovitch have come to expect, without the death and the gore.
My only reservation comes from the language. Dropping the odd term of yoof speak and agrammatical phrasing in otherwise straight forward prose doesn't quite create the illusion that Abigail is really the one telling the story. If anything it jars so much as to remind the reader of the fact that those aren't really her words.
Still a fun read though.