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Anyone else read this?
Picked it up at the weekend,
very much enjoying it, about a department of the civil service that deals with the supernatural. Somewhat less emphasis on the bureaucratic angle that Stross takes in The Laundry books, but very entertaining.
The introduction trick is quite good - the lead is a high ranked member of the department suffering from amnesia, enabling the reader to learn about the world at the same time she does without the grating 'naive farm boy' aspect of someone learning about the supernatural.
(at least I always find it grating. especially when its along the lines of "character X thought that everyone knew about the history of dread city Y" - and then proceeds to detail it at length....... its one of the aspects i like about SE not explaining stuff. The characters KNOW these things, why would they think about them?)
Apparently its going to be a series too, so i'm looking forward to reading more.
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The Rook - Daniel O'Malley One for Laundry/Rivers of London/maybe Dresden fans
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Posted 29 May 2013 - 10:05 AM
meh. Link was dead :(
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Posted 29 May 2013 - 10:40 AM
It's got a striking cover and I keep seeing it in the store and wondering if I ought to give it a chance. Perhaps I shall.
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Posted 29 May 2013 - 07:35 PM
Yeah it was the cover that lead to me picking it up.
and then buying it.
i'm like a woman and new shoes,
only in my case it's a Coco and new books.
and then buying it.
i'm like a woman and new shoes,
only in my case it's a Coco and new books.
meh. Link was dead :(
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Posted 10 June 2013 - 07:17 PM
I'm reading this at the moment and am a little ambivalent. Stylistically it's quite bad, but it does have some quite interesting ideas embedded in it. I'm not sure yet whether that makes it tolerably bad.
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Posted 31 December 2013 - 08:21 AM
I picked this up unheralded (hadn't seen this thread) and rather enjoyed it.
I can see a couple of issues
I like the writing style, there's enough introspection without slowing the plot, most of the characters were interesting and I had fun noting the little nods to various other supernatural legends. For example
I can see a couple of issues
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but mostly I just pushed them to one side and kept going. I like the writing style, there's enough introspection without slowing the plot, most of the characters were interesting and I had fun noting the little nods to various other supernatural legends. For example
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"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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