Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch
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4/5. You know what these are by now, right. Still enjoyable, though if I didn't know he continues to write these, I'd be worried he's wrapping up the series. Though maybe that's more the literary conditioning I've received that says a character is no longer interesting once they have children (I guess that's a spoiler? Not really though) rather than this book's notable lack of a big arc plot. It is a notable lack of a big arc plot, though the personal developments are lovely and the projected future promises interesting changes. This series has hit the point where a recurring background character gets to take a brief star turn and we meet his dad, and on the one hand, does it make any more than paper thin sense why he gets involved the way he does? Nope. Did I enjoy meeting his dad? Youbetcha. These are things you get to do in book nine.
Sidebar: so he's been writing the American spinoff for like five years now? I have concerns.
4/5. You know what these are by now, right. Still enjoyable, though if I didn't know he continues to write these, I'd be worried he's wrapping up the series. Though maybe that's more the literary conditioning I've received that says a character is no longer interesting once they have children (I guess that's a spoiler? Not really though) rather than this book's notable lack of a big arc plot. It is a notable lack of a big arc plot, though the personal developments are lovely and the projected future promises interesting changes. This series has hit the point where a recurring background character gets to take a brief star turn and we meet his dad, and on the one hand, does it make any more than paper thin sense why he gets involved the way he does? Nope. Did I enjoy meeting his dad? Youbetcha. These are things you get to do in book nine.
Sidebar: so he's been writing the American spinoff for like five years now? I have concerns.
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Date: 2022-04-27 11:16 am (UTC)I know people who have done something similar, but yeah, not for me. In addition to the usual people, my sister and her husband were in the room while I labored with Hogwart, though I had warned them ahead of time I might change my mind about that. It's hard to imagine having more people than that, and in retrospect I think I did feel kind of emotionally constrained by not wanting to worry them as the labor got more and more complicated and difficult. I will never be one of those people posting their labors to Youtube (yep, this is a thing).