{"id":6044,"date":"2016-09-04T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T22:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:13:49","slug":"rivers-of-london-night-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6044","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of London: Night Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers of London: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cA7N7N\">Night Witch<\/a><\/em> (2016) by Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2cA7N7N\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RiversOfLondon_2.2_Cover_B.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"RiversOfLondon_2.2_Cover_B\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6045\" \/><\/a>You get an alternative cover, because this is WAY more awesome than any of the actual covers.<\/p>\n<p>If it isn&#8217;t obvious, this story focuses a good deal upon Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, the Russian Night Witch captured by Peter and Thomas in an earlier book. We get to see what she has been doing with herself AND we also get glimpses into her past, which I particularly enjoyed.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Rivers-of-London-The-Night-Witch-issue-1-pic-4.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rivers-of-London-The-Night-Witch-issue-1-pic-4\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6046\" \/>We also get a glimpse into what Leslie has been up to. Not enough to learn, but glimpses.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NightWitch1_Art-Preview-1-600x849.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NightWitch1_Art-Preview-1-600x849\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6047\" \/>I enjoyed this comic better than Body Work, mostly because there were some very clever and amusing things done.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/night-witch-2.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"night-witch-2\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/night-witch-2.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/night-witch-2.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>We also get many of the regulars including Toby and Molly.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/night-witch-toby.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"night-witch-toby\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/night-witch-toby.jpeg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/night-witch-toby.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I particularly like the glimpses of Toby&#8217;s life.<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Titan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers of London: Night Witch (2016) by Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero You get an alternative cover, because this is WAY more awesome than any of the actual covers. If it isn&#8217;t obvious, this story focuses a good deal upon Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, the Russian Night Witch captured by Peter and Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,30,9,8,291,42,34],"tags":[57,587,58],"class_list":["post-6044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-british","category-graphic-novels","category-mystery","category-paper","category-police","category-urban-fantasy","tag-ben-aaronovitch","tag-peter-grant","tag-rivers-of-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1zu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11293,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11293","url_meta":{"origin":6044,"position":0},"title":"Broken Homes, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"December 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Broken Homes, Audio Version (2013) Ben Aaronovitch narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith First, we meet Varvara Sidorovna. \u201cNochnye Koldunyi,\u201d said Nightingale. \u201cA Night Witch.\u201d \u201cIs that like a person or another thing?\u201d asked Lesley. \u201cLike Peter\u2019s Pale Lady?\u201d \u201cA type of Russian practitioner,\u201d said Nightingale. \u201cRecruited during the war, the training\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;10\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"10\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/10-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/broken-homes.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9251,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/9251","url_meta":{"origin":6044,"position":1},"title":"Rivers of London: Detective Stories #3: Cry Me a River","author":"Michelle","date":"August 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rivers of London: Detective Stories #3: Cry Me a River (2017) by Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan, Luis Guerrero This one is actually a murder mystery--a ghost is trying to get his murder resolved, even though most of the principals died long ago. 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