Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes
Aug. 29th, 2013 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightJust finished this book this morning. Was late for work as a consequence.
Spoilers behind cut.
Hoo-boy, this was a good one (and not marred by typos like the last one). I honestly wasn't expecting the bombshell moment at the end. Looking back, I can see there were hints dropped throughout the book that Lesley was very much not okay with what had happened to her face (who would be?), and that Peter's discomfort with her unmasked had increased her not okay-ness tenfold.
I really didn't think she'd ever do that, though, or at least not when she saw what the consequences were (by which I mean the Faceless Man using other women to practise facial modification on and then killing them to hide the evidence).
I love these books so much. The characters are great, the depiction of London in all its cosmopolitan glory is even greater, and I adore the whole thing about the personifications of the rivers etc, in the same way I loved Neil Gaiman's personification of stations on the Underground in Neverwhere. London has such a deep, deep history and Aaronovitch is mining it brilliantly (despite the typos), not to mention making the Metropolitan police seem almost loveable without hiding their faults at all.
He's also very good at dropping intriguing ideas into the story (like Nightingale's role in WW2), but only revealing what they are very slowly, so you're tantalised and want to come back for more. Speaking of which...
More soon please.
Spoilers behind cut.
Hoo-boy, this was a good one (and not marred by typos like the last one). I honestly wasn't expecting the bombshell moment at the end. Looking back, I can see there were hints dropped throughout the book that Lesley was very much not okay with what had happened to her face (who would be?), and that Peter's discomfort with her unmasked had increased her not okay-ness tenfold.
I really didn't think she'd ever do that, though, or at least not when she saw what the consequences were (by which I mean the Faceless Man using other women to practise facial modification on and then killing them to hide the evidence).
I love these books so much. The characters are great, the depiction of London in all its cosmopolitan glory is even greater, and I adore the whole thing about the personifications of the rivers etc, in the same way I loved Neil Gaiman's personification of stations on the Underground in Neverwhere. London has such a deep, deep history and Aaronovitch is mining it brilliantly (despite the typos), not to mention making the Metropolitan police seem almost loveable without hiding their faults at all.
He's also very good at dropping intriguing ideas into the story (like Nightingale's role in WW2), but only revealing what they are very slowly, so you're tantalised and want to come back for more. Speaking of which...
More soon please.
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Date: 2013-08-30 12:26 pm (UTC)He also used to love down the road from me, but has since moved away.
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Date: 2013-08-30 12:41 pm (UTC)I left you another comment on the latest post, btw.