Well, hello there! :) *adds to circle* (I didn't even know you were on DW, I don't think, though I believe I'm following you on tumblr for the Rivers of London stuff -- I'm laylainalaska over there.)
I agree with you about the queen -- I think a lot of my complaints about this book just come down to the plot not hanging together very well at the end (at least, I didn't think so) and a lot of the "how" and "why" being left terribly vague.
But all complaints aside, this book has some great character stuff (REPRESS HARDER, PETER, I DARE YOU) and gave us some more building blocks to put together a picture of the magical world and how it works!
I think the lack of supporting cast was why I went almost immediately from this book to "Birdcage", which had been sitting on my Kindle for awhile because LONG RIVERS OF LONDON FIC WHEEEE -- because this book left me unsatisfied on the ensemble front, so I really wanted more of them! (And the close proximity between me reading FS and reading "Birdcage" is also what made me really notice how seamless the transition was; you do an amazing pastiche of Aaronovitch's writer voice.)
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I agree with you about the queen -- I think a lot of my complaints about this book just come down to the plot not hanging together very well at the end (at least, I didn't think so) and a lot of the "how" and "why" being left terribly vague.
But all complaints aside, this book has some great character stuff (REPRESS HARDER, PETER, I DARE YOU) and gave us some more building blocks to put together a picture of the magical world and how it works!
I think the lack of supporting cast was why I went almost immediately from this book to "Birdcage", which had been sitting on my Kindle for awhile because LONG RIVERS OF LONDON FIC WHEEEE -- because this book left me unsatisfied on the ensemble front, so I really wanted more of them! (And the close proximity between me reading FS and reading "Birdcage" is also what made me really notice how seamless the transition was; you do an amazing pastiche of Aaronovitch's writer voice.)