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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Excellent series!  |
Hey, pooh!
You know, I believe we discussed this series previously and for the first books, I loved it (the series), but this
last one (False Value)...man, it just
totally fell off my love-meter.
It was
all his g/f Beverly,
all the time, as if she's the center of the series and while she's a nice supporting character--she's not interesting enough to me, to carry an entire book. It's as though the
entire premise of the series--crime-solving mysteries in the Supernatural world--disappeared.
I dunno. The "mystery" is
muddled and mundane, and the timeline
is utterly bonkers. It makes NO sense. The Nightingale is missing, effectively. (I don't mean that's a plot element). It's just...meh. Even Toby and the "housekeeper" are mostly MIA.
And the "me and so-and-so"...I am so
totally over that. Peter's education, his comments, etc., are fairly erudite. In some ways, he's the Longmire of the Metro PD. But Aaronvitch
keeps dropping that in there, typically 2-3x per book, and at this point, it's utterly tone-deaf. Yeah, we get it, Peter's an
outsider. It's not like the protag says it when in conversation with someone else who would say it. It's....
peculiar.
I
hate it when this happens, when I love a series and then for whatever reason, the trolley leaves the tracks. (Yes, "early" Laurell K. Hamilton, who
used to write a cool supernatural alternate universe mystery series with a kick-ass heroine, I'm talkin' to YOU! I
would bitch at Robert B. Parker, too, [anybody else want to murder Susan?] but...no point at this point, sadly.)
ETA: Oh, Inspector Chen.
LOVED those, Pooh turned me on to them, but be advised, it ends on a cliffhangar and the ensuing books are not going to be published, apparently. (sob)
Hitch