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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Just an observation for possible consideration when making future nominations in the humor category. I may be totally off base here, but based on what I did read of Midnight Riot I'm wondering if much of the humor apparent to some was from the book being a parody or satire of a genre of detective novels? If so I would suggest that for such books (parodies or satires) the humor is only apparent to readers with more than passing interest and familiarity with the books being parodied or satirized?
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For me, the humour is in Peter. His stream of consciousness, his commentary on what he's doing and saying, just have me chuckling away. I suspect some of that is that I read a LOT of British novels, especially Police Procedurals. But I can't really say why I find it funny beyond that. But I know my DW has exactly the same reaction, and she hates anything fantasy or especially urban fantasy by default. His commentary in the opening scenes about his potential future as a Police is a classic and when I re-read it the other day still had me laughing.