The Furthest Station
Jan. 1st, 2018 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsThe Furthest Station
3/5. An interstitial novella that I assume will become relevant to the main continuity at some point. More substantial than the comics, but not by much. And there’s this weird problem where the B plot and the C plot are working thematically (the discovery of a new four-year-old river spirit accidentally adopted by a childless couple, and the inevitable eventuality of having to start teaching Abigail real magic) but the A plot is off doing its own thing that doesn’t thematically connect up at all. There are imprisoned ghosts and a somewhat misfired sex crime, and it’s all unresolved and weirdly rushed. Also, Peter keeps dropping in these largely pointless interjections to supposedly explain to the American FBI agent what various britishisms mean, which was funny once, weird twice, and by the third time all I could hear was Aaronovitch’s editor shouting “we have got to make this more accessible to the American market! Figure something out!”
3/5. An interstitial novella that I assume will become relevant to the main continuity at some point. More substantial than the comics, but not by much. And there’s this weird problem where the B plot and the C plot are working thematically (the discovery of a new four-year-old river spirit accidentally adopted by a childless couple, and the inevitable eventuality of having to start teaching Abigail real magic) but the A plot is off doing its own thing that doesn’t thematically connect up at all. There are imprisoned ghosts and a somewhat misfired sex crime, and it’s all unresolved and weirdly rushed. Also, Peter keeps dropping in these largely pointless interjections to supposedly explain to the American FBI agent what various britishisms mean, which was funny once, weird twice, and by the third time all I could hear was Aaronovitch’s editor shouting “we have got to make this more accessible to the American market! Figure something out!”