Rivers of London Vol. 5: Cry Fox

Another great graphic novel in the series. My only con of this item is that the print version is a bit expensive.

Another terrific story in he corpus. Desperate for the new novel though!

The story is a bit weaker than earlier volumes. (I’ve noticed the same thing happening to the novels.)

First, let me say, I love this series and have read the novels and previous graphic novels multiple times. However, I was really disappointed by this latest offering. This one is VERY brief and the story is underdeveloped and over-simplistic. There was an astonishing lack of character interactions, emotional responses/reactions, logical responses, etc. portrayed by Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Guleed, and other characters to whom the circumstances occurred. I can’t imagine such a lack of emotional affect happening in such a dire situation. What should have been a frightening/anxiety-provoking, adrenaline-producing (or at least seriously worrisome, lol) situation in progress seemed to have the impact of a convenience store run.My first photo shows the thickness of the first graphic novel on the right, with the current volume at the left. There a substantial reduction in size and therefore, content. (photo 3 shows thickness in order with the first volume topmost) The price has also increased.(photo 4)In addition, 20 pages of this graphic novel are fluff/filler content. 8 pages are historical information on foxes & Reynard in literature/culture (2nd picture) 4 pages are “Tales from the Folly” stories. 3 pages are alternative cover art, 2 are a spread showing the reading order of the novels & graphic novels combined, 1 is an advert for just the novels, 1 is an advert for the next comic or graphic novel, and 1 page is “Creator Biographies.” Counting in the 4 pages for front matter, 21% of the pages in this book are not part of the story.If it weren’t for the lack of content for the actual story line, I wouldn’t mind the fluff pages.

I like the series but this is a very thin story for the price.

So happy to see Abigail and more Guleed represented in this one. I've been enjoying the Rivers of London comic series. It was good news to see a new batch coming out after we bought up to Water Weed. I've been trying to read the comics and the novels/novella in order, so now I'm off to read novel #7 Lies Sleeping. Can't get enough Pete Grant and Ben Aaronovitch.

Ok... Why give an item a 1-star review just because YOU made a mistake? I figure if someone can rate this 1 star because not only did they not read the issue, they didn't read the product description, I can rate it 5 stars even if I haven't ordered it yet, since I've HAVE read all the novels, novellas, short stories and previous graphic novels in the series.Anyone who is a true Rivers of London fan knows these are graphic novels which complement the novels. While they are in no way as good as the novels, they are canon, and provide insights into the characters, and, with "Detective Stories", some good in-between-novels info.

The fifth in Aaronovitch's Peter Grant graphic novel series has Peter's magic-talented niece Abigail taking center stage. While Peter, Nightingale, and Varvara go to a pub frequented by the demimonde to threaten them, Abigail, who's awaiting her weekly lesson, is left cooling her heels. On the way home she encounters a fox who asks her to help a girl return to her mother. Unfortunately it's a trap by Reynard Fossman to get the money he thinks he's owed by the Russian couple arrested in the previous Night Witch. He's not only keeping the mate and kit of the fox in captivity, but is working with two thugs and a weird mother/son pair in order to get his satisfaction.Let's say I'm really familiar with the short story referenced in this tale, so I knew what Abigail was in for the minute she spoke with the squirrelly son. I was very happy to see some action for Sahra Guleed, one of my favorite supporting characters, but the end of this story was too abrupt! After all the buildup, the suspenseful part wasn't long enough. I would have liked to have seen the electronic device not work and have a little more suspense building up to the denouement; it seemed like the exciting part of the story just got started and, whap, there's deus ex machina Nightingale there for a quick ending. Maybe a smaller subplot involved in the story that had to be solved before they could get to the main plot, the mother/son having a larger estate, etc. which would have called for another issue with a longer suspenseful ending.Still—love the foxes, love Abigail and Guleed, love the use of that short story, and the inserts about fox lore were great as well. And as always, the short "Tales from the Folly."

I’ve never been into graphic novels per se - but I’m so addicted to his novels that I’ve branched out. Loving them all!

Great storyline and fun characters. A great companion to the novels.

Eine russische Oligarchentochter, deren Mutter im Gefängnis sitzt, wird entführt – und da die Mutter im Gefängnis sitzt, weil sie zuvor die Entführung ihrer Tochter vorgetäuscht hat, be-ginnen die Ermittlungen zunächst sehr zögerlich. Doch bald finden sich, wegen bestimmter anderer seltsamer Umstände, die ermittelnden Beamten im Folly ein, Und Oligarchentochter ist auch nicht die Einzige, die entführt worden ist, sondern auch noch Grants neueste Schüle-rin und deren Entführung - und die spätere Entführung einer Polizistin - hat noch ganz andere und wesentlich düstere Hintergründe. Denn es gibt auf dem Land und auf großen Privatbesit-zen zum Teil sehr seltsame Leute mit überaus unangenehmen Hobbies, die sich in der ländli-chen Abgeschiedenheit am Besten ausleben lassen.Füchse spielen hier auf verschiedenen Ebenen eine Rolle - als verschwörerische, etwas fuchs-ähnlich aussehende Menschen, als Füchse, die sprechen können und schließlich als Bestandteil einer der kontroversesten britischen Freizeitbeschäftigungen: der Fuchsjagd.Nach der eigentlichen Hauptgeschichte gibt es noch ein paar nette Ein-Seiter und außerdem eine mehrseitige Würdigung des Fuchses als mythologische Gestalt in unterschiedlichen Kul-turen, die mehr Text zu beinhalten scheint, als die Geschichte davor. Sehr interessant.

Si on a lu comme moi chacun des romans de la série "Rivers of London", le comics permet de patienter avant la publication du prochain roman.Naturellement le passage au Comic appauvrit un peu cela et se centrent sur les procédures policières, l’histoire, et la magie.J'ai lu tous les romans et je crois que sans cela, je n'aurait pas compris ce qui se passait dans les comics et encore moins dans les histoires bonus en une page. En effet, les personnages et relations ne sont jamais vraiment présentés dans les comics.Cette série de romans+comics est très distrayante. Mais pour l'apprécier il faut accepter le mélange d'amour de Londres et de sa topographie, , procédures policières détaillées, histoire et critique urbanistiques architecturale, sociographie de la Capitale du Royaume Un et ce qui rebute certains lecteurs de mes connaissances histoire du Jazz. (oui tout ça !) La magie et le surnaturel (quasi à la Harry Potter adulte) est surtout ici un décor.Cela dit, cette série reste une des romans-comics-feuilletons les plus distrayantes et passionnantes du moment plus du côté de Sherlock Holmes que d'un thriller, Mais le conseil que je donnerais c'est de lire les romans qui ont précédé avant les comics !

Ben Aaronovitch has a tendency to seed references to other stories in the Rivers of London series into his novels. This means that often the only way to discover what he is referring to, is to read the graphic novel stories that are being referenced. Nice artwork and the characters look eerily similar to how my mind's eye pictured them from the novels. But value for money. A novel might take me 2-3 days to read, a graphic novel story, only about 30 minutes. At around £10-£12, that just feels a bit pricey.