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Given the constant heat and humidity of this summer, the weather's been remarkably unthunderous so far, but today we had an actual storm. Not as bad as the ones in my childhood which were slow-moving and extremely loud: this was barely half an hour. The oddity was that I woke up to darkness and rain-- so much for that 5% chance of they were touting last night-- which had been going on for a while to judge by the puddles: and then the storm started. Luckily it was over long before I had to go out for my massage. Of course the sun also came out and the world steamed. And the sidewalks dried up except unter den linden so yes, the walker's wheels were coated with catkins and seedlings. But there were still puddles at the street corners where I could rinse them off.
I think the massage helped some, but I felt a little off-kilter afterwards. Which can happen, but usually doesn't. Had good intentions of sweeping up the tree gunk on my front path but umm no. We won't even mention the jungle out back.
Otherwise at a loose end, like everyone else on the RoL FB suffering post-Stone&Sky letdown, and in my case suffering post-JS&MN and Damned letdown as well. Yes, three winners in a row is nice (and rare) but what do you do for afters? Um well, I still have the new Points novel to go to.
(I wonder was I the only one who wondered if Abigail had been glamoured in S&S? Though I suppose that she, like Peter, has had some practice in resisting fae and genii locorum who try it on. But also, why is it called Stone and *Sky* when the biggest element around is the sea?)
I think the massage helped some, but I felt a little off-kilter afterwards. Which can happen, but usually doesn't. Had good intentions of sweeping up the tree gunk on my front path but umm no. We won't even mention the jungle out back.
Otherwise at a loose end, like everyone else on the RoL FB suffering post-Stone&Sky letdown, and in my case suffering post-JS&MN and Damned letdown as well. Yes, three winners in a row is nice (and rare) but what do you do for afters? Um well, I still have the new Points novel to go to.
(I wonder was I the only one who wondered if Abigail had been glamoured in S&S? Though I suppose that she, like Peter, has had some practice in resisting fae and genii locorum who try it on. But also, why is it called Stone and *Sky* when the biggest element around is the sea?)
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I really actually liked the dual narration (got the audiobook!) and I was interested in how Peter and Abigail have different approaches. Peter is very bound up in Being A Cop and his procedures and how to make everything work legally. Abigail doesn't seem to give much of a damn about that. She's intensely loyal but her loyalties are more personal, and she's really sharp. She seems harder, but almost more idealistic maybe? Idk.
That said phrases like "I was lit up lips to lips" not only threw me out of the book but halfway across the room. Please NEVER write a sex scene again, Ben Aaronovitch!
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I liked the dual narration too, largely because I like Abigail's voice and Peter, for all he's Chaotic Good, can be almost Benton Fraser at times. Also he's getting more settled as he grows older, less Chaotic and more by the book and therefore less interesting.
That phrase went right past me at the time but now, ewww. The sex scenes in Moon over Soho didn't bother me at all, because it was a guy being horny, which Ben must know about, and it was Peter being glamoured just like his dad was and hence not thinking with his brain much if at all. Now, a yaoi writer like me cannot complain of people writing opposite-sex sex, except that I maintain that yaoi guys aren't intended to be real guys and Abi is intended to be a real girl- or woman, I suppose: she's 17? now. So yeah, please don't write sex scenes, Ben.