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... quite the investigative team, actually, if one were to do that meme again, but more just shorthand for what I've been reading (and watching).
I have just finished the e-ARC of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, and this one is just an unqualified YAY, though I reserve the right to qualify later. For now: Ivan! Tej! By! (though not noticeably) Simon & Alys! Nicely brief Miles appearance! "The Gregor"! Charming understatements! Vast sinkholes! And yes, to answer Lois's question, it's a gift to the fans, and would be an awfully weird way to start reading the series, although if you could ignore all the little digs and references and concentrate on the main story, it might work.
What I've been reading otherwise (for the last month or so, which has contained a lot of reading, damn mysterious health issues): the Bryant & May series, by Christopher Fowler. Superannuated detectives in London's Peculiar Crimes Unit keep getting to the bottom of things, despite the continual threat (and occasional realization) of being shut down. I didn't read them in order, which in this case doesn't matter much (still have the last two to go). The general air is cozy and witty and full of odd factoids, even if the crimes are sometimes modernly gruesome and the occasional bad word slips in. Charming if not really understated. I want them to meet Dalziel and Pascoe.
To balance this, the much more gritty series (or two dovetailing ones) of Georgia crime novels by Karin Slaughter (which I hope is not a pen name), starring medical examiner (and pediatrician) Sara Linton, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and later on Special Agent Will Trent. The characters and stories are well drawn and though I'm somewhat put off by the reliance on shocking horrible stuff (the usual parade of torture, rape, child abuse, etc.) I really can't stop reading them (madly out of order, again). This may not be a good thing.
And then I'm watching Inspector Lewis and adoring it, but am only on series 2, so don't spoil me. Too much. I think I will go off and watch more now. (Or after I've seen what some of you had to say about the Ivan book.)
I have just finished the e-ARC of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, and this one is just an unqualified YAY, though I reserve the right to qualify later. For now: Ivan! Tej! By! (though not noticeably) Simon & Alys! Nicely brief Miles appearance! "The Gregor"! Charming understatements! Vast sinkholes! And yes, to answer Lois's question, it's a gift to the fans, and would be an awfully weird way to start reading the series, although if you could ignore all the little digs and references and concentrate on the main story, it might work.
What I've been reading otherwise (for the last month or so, which has contained a lot of reading, damn mysterious health issues): the Bryant & May series, by Christopher Fowler. Superannuated detectives in London's Peculiar Crimes Unit keep getting to the bottom of things, despite the continual threat (and occasional realization) of being shut down. I didn't read them in order, which in this case doesn't matter much (still have the last two to go). The general air is cozy and witty and full of odd factoids, even if the crimes are sometimes modernly gruesome and the occasional bad word slips in. Charming if not really understated. I want them to meet Dalziel and Pascoe.
To balance this, the much more gritty series (or two dovetailing ones) of Georgia crime novels by Karin Slaughter (which I hope is not a pen name), starring medical examiner (and pediatrician) Sara Linton, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and later on Special Agent Will Trent. The characters and stories are well drawn and though I'm somewhat put off by the reliance on shocking horrible stuff (the usual parade of torture, rape, child abuse, etc.) I really can't stop reading them (madly out of order, again). This may not be a good thing.
And then I'm watching Inspector Lewis and adoring it, but am only on series 2, so don't spoil me. Too much. I think I will go off and watch more now. (Or after I've seen what some of you had to say about the Ivan book.)
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Date: 2012-06-29 01:51 am (UTC)From:It really is an unqualified YAY! Isn't it.
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