Recent reading

[luzula]

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (audiobook)
Everybody else is reading these, so why not? I liked it fine but it did not blow me away; possibly this is because I am not in general a fan of mysteries. Interesting worldbuilding and characters, though. Uh, AO3 seems to have lots of shippy Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale fic--I did not get that vibe at all. So how is the rest of the series compared to the first one? Should I go on?

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk (original in Polish, read in Swedish)
Magical realism set in a Polish village over a hundred years. I liked it, though it has so many viewpoints that I didn't connect strongly with any of them. But the writing and sense of setting is great.

Comments

[vatine]

The first two are (probably) the weakest, a little hard to say how they rank between each other. The series gets stronger as it progresses, part of that is "more world is known", part of it is probably finding the series' voice.

I don't know if you make a difference between "police procedural" and "mystery" as genres, but if you do, I must say I find these books to be much more firmly the former.

[luzula]

Yeah, of course there must be gradations within the general mystery genre (if that's what it's even called), I just don't read/watch enough of it to know.

It's funny that I was a huge fan of due South for years, which is definitely a police procedural, without being a fan of the genre as such. I guess some things you just fall for regardless. I do actually also like the original Sherlock Holmes stories.

[hurry-sundown.livejournal.com]

I love the Rivers of London books. But even with my slash goggles on, I just don't see it.

[luzula]

I know, right? It's one of those fandoms where you check AO3 for fic and then you're like "...really? I never would have guessed."