Midnight Riot

I think any first book in a series is difficult to write. The author is introducing brand new characters and a brand new world. Midnight Riot was a decent start to the Peter Grant series, but there are certain elements that could have been improved. Let's start with the good. I enjoyed Peter's humor and his comments that connected his world to the our world. My favorite was when he mentioned Harry Potter, which made me laugh. I also liked the explanation given about the different set up the police have in London, it helped bring Peter's job as a constable into understandable terms. I also enjoyed the concept of magic draining energy from both the human body and electronic devices, though I am interested to know why only certain parts of said devices are affected. Now let's continue with the not so good. There was no character development, there wasn't even any development between the relationships of characters. The plot was also at times very disjointed and skipped around. There were a few times I flipped to previous pages to understand why Peter met certain characters or why he went to certain places and I still could not figure it out. And the end kept going....and going....and going. I will give Aaronovitch a second try with the sequel Moon Over Soho to see if there are improvements to the plot structure and characters