Broken Homes: A Rivers of London Novel [Kindle Edition] Author: Ben Aaronovitch | Language: English | ISBN:
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Download books file now Download Broken Homes: A Rivers of London Novel for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link My name is Peter Grant, and I am a keeper of the secret flame -- whatever that is.
Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale, previously the last of England's wizardly governmental force, is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's apprentice. But even he doesn't have all the answers. Mostly I'm just a constable sworn to enforce the Queen’s Peace, with the occasional help from some unusual friends and a well-placed fire blast. With the new year, I have three main objectives, a) pass the detective exam so I can officially become a DC, b) work out what the hell my relationship with Lesley Mai, an old friend from the force and now fellow apprentice, is supposed to be, and most importantly, c) get through the year without destroying a major landmark.
Two out of three isn’t bad, right?
A mutilated body in Crawley means another murderer is on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil, who may either be a common serial killer or an associate of the twisted magician known as the Faceless Man -- a man whose previous encounters I've barely survived. I've also got a case about a town planner going under a tube train and another about a stolen grimoire.
But then I get word of something very odd happening in Elephant and Castle, on a housing estate designed by a nutter, built by charlatans, and inhabited by the truly desperate. If there's a connection to the Crawley case, I'll be entering some tricky waters of juristiction with the local river spirits. We have a prickly history, to say the least.
Just the typical day for a magician constable.
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- Print Length: 320 pages
- Publisher: DAW; Reissue edition (February 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DYX9OPC
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Book 4 in the Peter Grant urban fantasy series set in London and surrounds. This book is surprisingly slow paced right up until about 80% when the shit hits the fan in a big way. Peter, Lesley and Nightingale are investigating some gruesome magic-related murders they believe are related to their nemesis, the Faceless Man. Most of the story follows their investigations and the author manages to make the police procedures fascinating by seeing them through the very inquiring, "still-waters-run-deep" mind of junior detective and magician's apprentice, Peter.
I have a big crush on Peter. I love his mind. He has an enormous thirst for knowledge and a philosophical approach to police work. His boss Nightingale is stuck in the past, so Peter spends a lot of time finding the scientific basis for magic and he actually achieves it. At least he totally convinced me, through the use of both real-life and imagined texts, biology, and rough experimentation. This series is unique in the way it approaches magic with logic and historical fact.
One of the biggest characters in this book is the fictitious housing estate, Skygarden Estate which is modeled on the real-life Heygate Estate, one of those massive concrete social ghettos built in the 60's. I first saw these types of estates when I was living in Europe and I always thought they were creepy so I found Peter's investigations and his progress through the maze of flats and underground bunkers suitably oppressive. It was a brilliant choice for a setting.
We actually get to see Nightingale do some big magic, albeit behind closed doors. I felt he supported Peter more which was my criticism in the last book.
I've made hopeful forays into many over-hyped fantasy series in this new millennium, and found most of them disappointing, but not this clever fantasy-police-procedural by Ben Aaronovitch. The characters live. The dialogue crackles and pops. 21st century technology is embedded throughout. The villains can do awful things to your body. One poor schmuck in "Broken Homes" has his bones set on fire from the inside-out. There is plenty of work for Dr. Walid, everyone's favorite, wise-cracking forensic pathologist, who is the world expert on bodies done in by magic.
This 4th entry in the Peter Grant series carries on with the ironic, tongue-in-cheek, first-person narrative style that made "Midnight Riot," "Moon Over Soho," and "Whispers Under Ground" so un-put-downable. Along with Constable Peter Grant, all of our favorite characters appear, including Nightingale, the unflappable senior magician, various river gods and goddesses, the ever-hungry Zach and his buddies, the Quiet People, and Leslie, the constable who lost her face in a previous episode. It would help to read these books in order, to familiarize yourself with the series' long-running villain, the Faceless Man. The relationships between characters only get more and more complicated as the adventure moves on. Lots of loose ends in "Broken Homes" guarantee further episodes, and I for one, can't wait until they are published.
As "Whispers Underground" concentrated on London's Underground, this fourth book focuses in on certain aspects of London's above-ground architecture, most especially housing projects for the poor. One in particular, "designed by a nutter, built by charlatans and inhabited by the truly desperate" seems to be linked to more than its share of homicide victims who suffered truly bizarre deaths.
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