Back Again for Another Day of Magic and Mayhem in London Town - A Review of The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Since this is the sixth book in an ongoing series, consider this a warning for potential spoilers for previous books in the series. There are no to minimal spoilers for the book itself.

The difficult thing about favouring an ongoing series is that sometimes, things do not always go according to schedule. Release dates can change unexpectedly for a variety of reasons, and while I understand why such things happen (not least because it usually means the author or authors have run into unexpected problems), it does feel a touch sad when a book I was looking forward to does not get released when I thought it would.

That was the case with The Hanging Tree, the sixth book in Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series. I was so looking forward to its release in 2015, but when the release date was moved to 2016, I admit that I was a touch disappointed. Though I enjoyed Foxglove Summer, the fifth book in the series, I thought it was more like a kind of summer vacation for Peter Grant, especially given the momentous events that happened in book four, Broken Homes. But I was looking forward to seeing Peter back in the city, and there had been a few scattered hints across the Internet indicating that big things were going to happen in the next book - but then it was delayed, and I had to wait until 2016 to finally, finally find out what was going to happen next in Peter Grant’s very exciting, and very dangerous, life.

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