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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Read during my first trip to London. Better than any guidebook, I kept running into spots — following PC Grant with a little gleeful joy, as we traipsed about town. The story was engaging enough, but the unceasing Britishness and humor is what sold me.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I started to get an odd feeling about how the text would treat women and POCs and a brief Google seems I was onto something so I’m calling it quits. Note, I was reading the revised edition which is supposed to be “better” than the original in this sense, but for me it wasn’t revised enough.
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really wanted to dislike this - I really don't do magic, fantasy or any of that stuff. It is a book group choice later this year and I thought I'd get it on audio, take ages listening to it in mercifully small chunks and the be scathing....
But actually I really liked it, partly I suspect because the narration was extremely good - Kobna Holbrook-Smith did a really good job giving each character distinctive voices without falling into parody or campness. And actually the books are dryly funny with some nice amusing ideas. If I had a a gripe or two they are that; Aaronovitch over describes everything and they are largely blokey although Lesley & Stephanopolous relieve that somewhat. Otherwise the plotting is reasonable and characterisation good.
But actually I really liked it, partly I suspect because the narration was extremely good - Kobna Holbrook-Smith did a really good job giving each character distinctive voices without falling into parody or campness. And actually the books are dryly funny with some nice amusing ideas. If I had a a gripe or two they are that; Aaronovitch over describes everything and they are largely blokey although Lesley & Stephanopolous relieve that somewhat. Otherwise the plotting is reasonable and characterisation good.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No