False Value: Book 8 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series (A Rivers of London novel)

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Maybe Aaronovitch having Peter deal with "The Faceless Man" in the last book meant we would get filler, but geez this is boring. He always brings the books so vividly to life, and somehow copes with the myriad of accents that Aaronovitch tries to trip him up with. But, for the sake of the question I would have to say Rush, their 1974 eponymous first album because it lacks the songwriting of Neil Peart. Also, I “read” it mostly in audio, as I do all the books, and the Kobna Holdbrook-Smith’s narration adds SO MUCH. Born and raised in London he says that he'll leave his home when they prise his city out of his cold dead fingers.

Janine Ballard loves well-paced, character-driven novels in romance, fantasy, YA, and the occasional outlier genre. I love being there more than the real London’NICK FROST’As brilliant and funny as ever’THE SUN’Charming, witty, exciting’THE INDEPENDENT’An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups’THE TIMESDiscover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. Which leads us to Ada Lovelace, the Enchantress of Numbers, and the Mary Engine mentioned briefly in a previous book but I've forgotten which one, could be a novella, which is why I'm writing everything down this time. Peter and Guleed's chats about meeting her fiance's family in Hong Kong and how they reacted to her having melanin and him converting religions are sadly true to life: ‘They’re not thrilled,’ said Guleed suddenly. Didn't think I would enjoy reading about their relationship through a domestic lens, and the "pregnancy in the epilogue" reveal from the last book made me audibly ugh.I still like the series, and Kobna narrates this book beautifully, but I hope the next instalment is more measured.

Starting to feel like there have been too many Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy references in this review already? Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. I’ve read all the books but not the novellas – because, too expensive – and not the graphic novels, because I don’t really read graphic novels.As I said in my review of the last novel in the series, Lies Sleeping, I had gone through a slump with this series for a few in the middle. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand-new London start-up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. As Peter later discovers, the SCC’s big secret is an AI that’s so advanced that it passes the Turing Test multiple times, but of course it turns out to be too good to be true. Leaving his old police life behind, he takes a job with Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's new London start up: the Serious Cybernetics Corporation.