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I was re-reading Rivers of London (US/Canada title Midnight Riot) recently and I’m curious about something. The protagonist of all the books is Constable Peter Grant, who is mixed race. The author of the series, Ben Aaronovitch, is white. I think Aaronovitch does a great job portraying a character who is not only black but black in a very specific cultural and class context (the London-born child of a white jazz musician father and a Fulani office cleaner mother originally from Sierra Leone). Now, *I* think Aaronovitch does a great job, but I’m a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, so I wouldn’t necessarily notice if Aaronovitch was screwing things up right, left and centre.

For people in my circle who are not white and have read the books, or at least one of the books, how do you think Aaronovitch does?