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Lies Sleeping The Seventh Rivers of London novel A Rivers of London novel Ben Aaronovitch author 9781473207813 Books

I enjoyed reading every Peter Grant novel/novella of this supernatural UF series, but this is easily the weakest entry. Characters from earlier books and comics/graphic novels pop up, some without much background or characterization. More troubling are holes in the storyline, uneven pacing; several lengthy historical discourses with little relevance to the plot; and a less-than-satisfactory motive(s) for Chorley’s elaborate machinations that spanned six books and several comic books.

To readers who want more Nightingale, Toby, Molly, Leslie, Beverly, Guleed, and talking foxes: I suggest you read Ben Aaronovitch’s comics/graphic novel series. (There’s also a stand-alone Audible book and several short stories.) I believe the author planned the Rivers of London comics to slot into the timeline of the Peter Grant books.

The comic books enhance story elements of the books, introduce new events and characters, and further develop recurring primary and secondary characters. For example: Sahra Guleed is the protagonist in “Black Mould,” Varvara Tamomina in “Night Witch,” and in the comic book “Cry Fox,” Abigail Kamara is a more developed and less annoying character.

Before buying the comic books, I suggest you download several (more is better) samples into your reading devices, because the comics format may not render correctly on your device. Hint: It’s not easy to read comics on my plus-sized phone.

I overwhelmingly prefer the Peter Grant Series’ Audible books to the Kindle versions. However, even Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's excellent narration could not resuscitate the tedious sections of “Lies Sleeping.”


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Lies Sleeping The Seventh Rivers of London novel A Rivers of London novel Ben Aaronovitch author 9781473207813 Books Reviews

I've had this on advance order for a very long time as I've loved the Rivers of London series since 2011 when I first read 'Midnight Riot'. Now Ben Aaronovitch is more concerned with writing comics, which I have no real interest in, and so the gap between the books gets longer and longer. The last one came out in January 2017, so it's pretty close to a 2-year wait. Consequently, I really have forgotten totally what happened in The Hanging Tree, and it becomes a chore to pick up the story - especially when it seems to reference things that happened in the comic book world. It seems a little unfair to his dedicated readers, but I'm guessing the 'graphic novels' are a faster turnaround and bring in more money.

One other thing, this book is littered with abbreviations, which again, are probably covered elsewhere. But would it hurt to have a list of abbreviations at the beginning of the book that you could reference?

Sadly this is the weakest of the Rivers of London books and I really hope that the next one will be a big improvement.

Addendum The ending is horrible. It is rushed and serves no real purpose. No spoilers but now we have swapped one protagonist for another. Surely after all this time there could have been a more well thought out conclusion? The last page or two leaves us hanging with the hope there will be more (better) follow-ons to this one.
"Lies Sleeping" begins with Peter and DS ("count the stripes") Guleed performing surveillance on a former member of the Little Crocodiles dining club (a hotbed of illicit magicians at Oxford). They (the Metropolitan Police) are hoping the subject under surveillance will lead them to Martin Chorley, aka The Faceless Man II, arch-villain and evil magician. It's another boring stretch in an "unmarked, but mercifully not silver, Hyundai" when the subject's nanny shoots out through a hole in the roof of the house and heads straight for Peter.

Let the action begin!

This 8th entry (if you count the novelette, "The Furthest Station") in the Peter Grant series carries on with the tongue-in-cheek first-person narrative style that made "Midnight Riot" (2011), "Moon Over Soho" (2011), "Whispers Underground (2012), "Broken Homes" (2013), "Foxglove Summer" (2014), The Hanging Tree (2016), and "The Furthest Station (2017) so un-put-downable. All of our favorite characters appear in "Lies Sleeping," including Nightingale, the unflappable senior magician, various river goddesses, the shiftless half-fae Zachary Palmer, DCI Alexander Seawoll, the foul-mouthed head of homicide, the legendary Detective Inspector Miriam Stephanopoulos ( "Seawoll’s right-hand woman and terrifying lesbian. The only joke ever made at her expense goes 'Do you know what happened to the last police officer who made a joke about DI Stephanopoulos?' 'No, what did happen to him?' 'Nobody else knows either.'"), and Leslie May, the constable who lost her face in a previous episode and turned to the Dark Side. You almost have to read these books in order, to familiarize yourself with the series' long-running villain, the Faceless Man, and the relationships between characters, which only get more and more complicated as the adventure moves on.

Peter has several action-filled encounters with the Faceless Man but there is also a softer, gentler interlude with a fae called Foxglove "I’d never met a more obvious fae who wasn’t riding a unicorn. She was impossibly tall and slender, with elongated arms that emerged from a loose brown sleeveless smock and ended in long-fingered hands. She had supermodel legs in black leggings that ended at the ankles to expose dainty pink feet.... I might have gone for a bit of charm, except Foxglove stepped forward and, with no real discernible effort, lifted me up and threw me over her shoulder."

"Lies Sleeping" tidies up lots of loose ends from the previous Peter Grant books, but I am still hoping for further episodes in this sparkling, fast-paced police-procedural/fantasy.
It kills me to give a book in this series -- one of my favorites -- only two stars, but this entry is mediocre at best. "Lies sleeping" is supposed to be the resolution of the epic conflict at the heart of the series but it's really an anti-climactic muddle. Is this all there is, really?

The villain's evil plot is never really explained, there are long stretches where nothing happens, and characters pop up and then vanish without contributing anything meaningful to the plot.

Worst of all for a Rivers book, the Rivers don't have anything material to do with the ending!

"Lies" is amateurish and unfocused. It feels as if it were written to fulfill a contractual obligation after the author has lost interest. If you love this series, you probably should skip this entry and imagine your own ending to the Chorley saga -- you'll almost certainly do a better job than Aaronovitch did.
I enjoyed reading every Peter Grant novel/novella of this supernatural UF series, but this is easily the weakest entry. Characters from earlier books and comics/graphic novels pop up, some without much background or characterization. More troubling are holes in the storyline, uneven pacing; several lengthy historical discourses with little relevance to the plot; and a less-than-satisfactory motive(s) for Chorley’s elaborate machinations that spanned six books and several comic books.

To readers who want more Nightingale, Toby, Molly, Leslie, Beverly, Guleed, and talking foxes I suggest you read Ben Aaronovitch’s comics/graphic novel series. (There’s also a stand-alone Audible book and several short stories.) I believe the author planned the Rivers of London comics to slot into the timeline of the Peter Grant books.

The comic books enhance story elements of the books, introduce new events and characters, and further develop recurring primary and secondary characters. For example Sahra Guleed is the protagonist in “Black Mould,” Varvara Tamomina in “Night Witch,” and in the comic book “Cry Fox,” Abigail Kamara is a more developed and less annoying character.

Before buying the comic books, I suggest you download several (more is better) samples into your reading devices, because the comics format may not render correctly on your device. Hint It’s not easy to read comics on my plus-sized phone.

I overwhelmingly prefer the Peter Grant Series’ Audible books to the versions. However, even Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's excellent narration could not resuscitate the tedious sections of “Lies Sleeping.”