London Falling. Interesting idea, akin to the Ben Aaronovitch books, but curiously hard to follow. I think it's the revolving characters, he keeps skipping from one to the other, and gives none of them time to develop, so I keep having to flick back a few pages. Maybe it'll sort itself out by the end but it wouldn't have benefited from building out a single protagonist rather than wheeling through four fairly indistinguishable ones.
Didn't really sort itself out which is a shame since I quite liked the story. Too many narrators and protagonists. Definitely would have worked better from a single point-of-view or at least giving each character more than a couple of pages before flipping to the next. In the end, you have four people with one-note motivations and a samey voice that meant I had to scan back or ahead sometimes to figure out who's point of view. Slightly telling of the author's scriptwriting background where you can pass off much of that characterisation to having people on doing and talking onscreen.
That said not bad, it you like the Aaronovitch, Gaiman, urban fantasy kind of gig. May try the second one if it's cheap on the Kindle.
Just read
Broken Homes too which was better.
I did wonder if it was going to end like that given the shotgun-to-the-face plot line, but I figured she'd come through on the side of goodness and light in the final reckoning and taser the Faceless Man.
Might have to give Charles Stross books a try. I confess I only read one,
Accelerando, and found it hard going. It was bit like being locked in a bathroom for a near-infinitely long shit with only a near-endless supply of old copies of
Wired to read.
