Masquerades of Spring - Rambling Readers

English language

Published 2024 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-4732-2440-7

(2 reviews)

New York City, New York.

Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps.

That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone - which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows…

1 edition

Moonmoth@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

Gelungener Ausflug in die Harlem Renaissance der 1920er Jahre

4 stars

Diese kurze Rivers of London Novelle ist gleichzeitig ein offensichtlich penibel recherchertes Abenteuer in den queeren Subkulturen des New York des 'Jazz Age', eine liebevolle Homage an P.G. Wodehouse und ein lang verdienter Moment im Rampenlicht für Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grants Mentor in der Hauptserie, der eher überraschend im Leben seines Schulfreundes Augustus "Gussie" Berrycloth-Young auftaucht. Charmant und spannend zu lesen, als Krimi nicht sonderlich komplex, was den Unterhaltungswert allerdings schmälert.

Frank Burns reviewed Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch

Yet another 5 star in this series

5 stars

This was a delight. I am a huge fan of this series but the novellas have been largely enjoyable without being, top tier, maybe. This certainly was top tier. It's 1920's New York during the Harlem Renaissance, into this Aaronovitch throws Nightingale (who has lived since about the turn of the century) and a bit of P G Wodehouse using a class mate of Nightingale. Stir, shake and get that hit from the bathtub gin cocktails. A definite recommend.