Audible credit burning a hole in my digital pocket...suggestions?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm suprised no one's yet recommended the He Who Fights Monsters series, nor Rivers of London, so I'll add them here... in our group HWFM & Dungeon Crawler Carl are much debated as to which is best....

I've listened to most of the Rivers of London series on Audible and I like them. The narrator does a great job of making the character come alive. Unfortunately, I'm reaching the point in the series where the author clearly feels like he wants to wrap up the storyline, and it's getting less engaging as a result. Fantastic worldbuilding, though.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I've put the Johannes Cabel series and Spinning Silver on my list. Did you read Spinning Silver or listen to a narration? If that later, is the narration good?

I'd personally strongly rate Novik's Uprooted over Spinning Silver. It's got a lot of similar ideas but it executes insanely better on every single one, and is also more unique, and also doesn't have a distractingly insane attempt at apologia for landlords kicking out destitute peasants (one of the most hilariously "Why did you put this in? It doesn't play the way you think it does" bits of insanity I've ever seen in a fantasy novels, it's not even thematic like the out-of-nowhere bondage stuff in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana).

I'm suprised no one's yet recommended the He Who Fights Monsters series, nor Rivers of London

Yeah Rivers of London is some of the best Audible there is, because after book 2, they're basically all written with Audible in mind, and the specific reader (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith) in mind. I was incredibly skeptical of it based on reading about the plot, but eventually so many people recommended it that I pulled the trigger, and they were right to recommend it, even if ACAB does include Peter Grant.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Unfortunately, I'm reaching the point in the series where the author clearly feels like he wants to wrap up the storyline, and it's getting less engaging as a result. Fantastic worldbuilding, though.

Yeah it does seem like we're there, but it was a lot of books to get to that point!

Personally I think they just need to do a time-skip, (huge spoilers)

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which could have the added benefit of leaping over the pandemic (unless Aaronovitch has something particularly interesting to say about that). There's also the issue that most of the good guys are getting kind of overpowered and there being no real plausible opposition for them. I was expecting that opposition to be the titular Rivers themselves and the first few books seemed to be foreshadowing this pretty hard but it seems like at some point Aaronovitch decided that they were too fan-favourite or something, and has instead just backpedalled on all the elements which appeared to be foreshadowing of this.