Rivers of London: Deadly Ever After (Graphic Novel)

 My Thought:

First, this is such a beautiful, old-timey, intriguing cover. The art style is like the comic books I remember. reading when I was young.  This story is part of a series of supernatural detectives who police the world/universe/time continuum? This is the first book I read in this adaptation series, so the main characters of this series do not show up as key components of this particular story, however, it seems like the characters are in the present, but also have been around for centuries. 

This story is about two sisters, Olympia and Chelsea. Although they are daughters of the river goddess, Mama Thames, they are not the crime fighters. In fact, it seems like others expect them to screw up, so they are trying to clean up their mess and the fallout from their mess. Their "mess" actually starts when the sisters are "camping" and reveal a magical tree to another camper. That break in magic starts a series of odd transformations in the other campers who live out fairy tales in real life.

It takes two foxes who are witness to the human shenanigans to then find the sisters in the city and get them to reach out for help and then fix their own mess.

I was able to finish this on the plane home (40 minutes) so this series will appeal to comic book readers who like the idea of a mystery series that finishes at the end of each installment. 

From the Publisher:

Illustrations from a mysterious book of fairy tales drawn in the late 1800s are coming to life in the 21st Century and causing havoc. The illustrations were originally painted by a Victorian artist called Jeter Day who disappeared one night in an enchanted forest when he was spirited away by tree nymphs never to be seen again…

Now, with the enchantment accidentally broken by Olympia and Chelsea, daughters of the river goddess Mama Thames, Jeter, twisted by his time spent with the nymphs, has returned to our world bitter and resentful. It is a world he neither recognises nor likes. All he wants is his life returned to him and woe betide any man who stands in his way.

With Peter and Nightingale busy on another case, it falls to sisters Olympia and Chelsea with the help of the Foxes to stop Jeter and save the day.

Publication information:

Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Illustrator: José-Maria Beroy

Publisher: Titan Comics (January 24, 2023)