"The Midnight Mayor"

"The Midnight Mayor" is Kate Griffin's second book in the Matthew Swift urban fantasy novels.  Griffin is one of Carnegie Medal nominated young adult author Catherine Webb's pseudonyms.

Griffin introduced her sorcerer, Matthew Swift, in the first book in this series, "A Madness Of Angels," and continues his story in "The Midnight Mayor" -- both books set in her native city of London.

Legend has it that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London then the Tower will crumble and the kingdom will fall.  Sorcerer Matthew Swift discovers that the magical wards guarding the city of London are falling away one by one and he comes to the understanding that something is threatening the city of London -- but what and what can be done?

Although Swift would prefer to stay uninvolved, his life doesn't seem to work that way and he finds himself in the middle of danger with more than one enemy (as usual) wanting to kill him.  Can he survive and save the city?

Although the two Swift books I've read tend to be large tomes and very wordy, once I get to the meat of the story I have a need to find out how they end so I persevere to their very satisfying endings and, yes, I will look for "The Neon Court" - the next book in the Swift series.  pazt