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Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
Nov. 19th, 2018 09:06 pmLies Sleeping
3/5. Peter Grant book.
So it turns out the Faceless Man's big plan was to ( spoiler ). And that is simultaneously really stupid and kind of interesting. Stupid as in sigh, really? And interesting as in it sets up a thematic conversation about kinds of fantasy and kinds of fantasy fans. The fact that Faceless wrote a joke in Tolkien elvish on a death trap is funny, but also, Peter could read it. They are fans of a lot of the same texts. Recall going through his home and the careful catalog Peter took of the books. And yet what they do with that fantasy fannishness is diametrically opposed, and it kind of works that they have switched positions from what you might expect: Faceless is the one doing something arguably naïve and hopeful, and Peter is the one being like bro, it really does not work that way.
I mean, also, it seems like a metaphor for recent developments in U.K. politics, but whatever.
So that was okay, and the thing Lesley does at the end of this book is exactly right, yes, that is how that would go down. But. This book moves a huge amount of pieces and ties off a lot of plotlines, and yet it felt kind of slack. All tension going out and very little being taken up. And I'm counting the 10% of this book we spend locked in a single room as slackening tension, here.
Also, unrelatedly ( other spoiler )
So it's a pivot book, and I am interested in finding out what it's pivoting to. But this was not my favorite entry in the series by a long shot.
3/5. Peter Grant book.
So it turns out the Faceless Man's big plan was to ( spoiler ). And that is simultaneously really stupid and kind of interesting. Stupid as in sigh, really? And interesting as in it sets up a thematic conversation about kinds of fantasy and kinds of fantasy fans. The fact that Faceless wrote a joke in Tolkien elvish on a death trap is funny, but also, Peter could read it. They are fans of a lot of the same texts. Recall going through his home and the careful catalog Peter took of the books. And yet what they do with that fantasy fannishness is diametrically opposed, and it kind of works that they have switched positions from what you might expect: Faceless is the one doing something arguably naïve and hopeful, and Peter is the one being like bro, it really does not work that way.
I mean, also, it seems like a metaphor for recent developments in U.K. politics, but whatever.
So that was okay, and the thing Lesley does at the end of this book is exactly right, yes, that is how that would go down. But. This book moves a huge amount of pieces and ties off a lot of plotlines, and yet it felt kind of slack. All tension going out and very little being taken up. And I'm counting the 10% of this book we spend locked in a single room as slackening tension, here.
Also, unrelatedly ( other spoiler )
So it's a pivot book, and I am interested in finding out what it's pivoting to. But this was not my favorite entry in the series by a long shot.