Mythology

So this is a bit of rant and I usually stay away from really negative reviews, but I just couldn’t get over how appalling I found these books. And I admit I haven’t read only two-thirds of the Meluha Trilogy, but that’s enough to conclude that these are not for me. Before I make a case for why these were not worth my time, the series has been constantly on the best-seller list and is…

Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London (Midnight Riot in US) suffers a bit from an identity crisis. It tries to be a fantasy-fiction novel, a police procedural, a London guide, a commentary on race all at the same time, but never quite succeeding. There is so much going on in every single page, that it was often hard to remember how I arrived at a particular point in the story and whether it was significant. The…