The Severed Streets (Paperback)

from SESchend

Amazing work, although it's definitely a second book in a series. While not impossible, 89% of the nuance and context of the characters grew from that book and their initial encounters with the supernatural. Thus, I recommend you read Paul Cornell's London Falling first. That said, this book took...

from AnnieMod

With Mora Losley dead and the Smiling Man nowhere to be seen, our favorite team of policemen are learning to survive while being able to see the darker corners of London. And just when they start wondering when they will find a new case that will allow the unit to keep existing. And the case find...

from reading_fox

Starts really well, and is definitely not just a 2nd book of a trilogy feeling. A very well crafted recap section for those of us who hadn't quite remembered the previous book, before moving onto the main plot proper. This is very obviously based on the London riots of 2011 or so, and as such alr...

from Shrike58

I'm going to have to concur with some of the other reviewers that this second installment of London investigative police fighting occult powers while using Second Sight themselves is not quite as involving as the initial novel. However, I do give Cornell points for being willing to get to grips w...

from LongDogMom

A found it a bit hard to get into but once I did I was drawn into a fascinating urban fantasy/supernatural murder mystery. It's not a fast read. There's a lot of things to take in, but I find this series so different and so rich and deep that I can't help looking forward to the next book in the s...