Series:Rivers of Londer: #4

2023-11-03: Was looking around for my next read and decided to continue this series rather than something new. I must be enjoying them.

2023-11-05: Gah! You backstabbing bastard! I'm referring to the author of course. I called it at the end of book one and I'm really sorry to see I was right. If I see something coming then it means the author was lazy because I'm a dumbass about foreshadowing and such.

Now I want her dead. Which is a little unfair because I understand that she was telling herself horror stories but she put her vanity over the welfare of others and at least one person was murdered for her benefit and does she really think Faceless lets her walk away, with or without her face? I hope A-A-ronovitch at least leaves her stupidly vane and doesn't have her go truly evil. Wouldn't be a surprise though.

Really tempted to quit the series and just go read the Wikipedia summaries.

2023-11-05: I did read the summaries and don't know if I'll continue the series. Maybe at least the Abigail novella.

I'm tired of books about sleepwalkers. I understand that's the majority of humanity and that they don't know that they're sleepwalking or that there are other options, but sleepwalkers hurt themselves and those around them as they bumble about with their eyes closed. This is the same as my dislike of books where one conversation negates the entire plot. That's just lazy writing, while in the sleepwalker case it's probably a sleeper doing the writing so no surprise that's what they write. So much suffering caused by humans not understanding that they're animals, even if they're the only animal with the option to be something more. ( )

Es ist jetzt eine Weile her, dass ich das Buch gesehen habe und die ganze Serie blendet ein bisschen zusammen, ich hatte das Privileg von "EinWispern unter Baker Street" an, das ganze in einem Zug durchzulesen.

Aufgrund des Schreibstils, des elaborierten und einzigartigen magischen Systems, kontinuierlich weiter erkundet durch Peters wissenschaftlichen Wissensdrang und weitern auftauchenden magischen Parteien, neben den "Isaacs", sowie der humorvollen und lebendigen Charaktere und deren Dynamiken kann ich die Serien nur weiterempfehlen.

Und Lesley? Ich verzeih dir nicht. Das war kalt. Wirklich eiskalt.
Der Tod von Sky hat mich ebenfalls total fertig gemacht, selbst wenn sie erst in diesem Buch vorgestellt wurde.
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Just stunning. Aaronovitch writes the most amazing endings. Loved every page of it and now I have to wait months for the fifth book. Sob! ( )

The core plot of this book is very good. However, it's a very messy book. I found my self reading sections because I thought I had missed something but, no, the book just jumps around a lot. It feels like the book was rushed and bits of it don't make sense. ( )

Thank you again Devi for the heads-up, because I truly love having Kobna Holdbrook-Smith read me stories. ( )