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More cohesive plot-wise than the first one, and the dry humor is still great, the characters still feel like actual real people, and the portrayal of London and its history is still spot on (occasionally verging on info dumping, but I can deal with that since it's not excessive). If the purpose is to have only one main case from now on, I think it will work better in terms of keeping track of the personal lives of the characters and how the magical world is progressing.
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Peter Grant iks investigating the death of a jazz musician who has a vestigium of the son Body and Soul. He is also involved with the death of a masn who had his private parts eaten off. There also seems to be the beginning of an ongoing thread involving an evil magician who noone can remember his face. There was some carry over from the first book so I'd recommend reading the books in order. I like that Peter is developing in his magic and that we got to learn a bit more about Nightingale. This
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2.5 stars.
Audiobook. Not as fun as the first. Kind of dragged in the middle. Better when the author got back to scenes of London and action - chases, fights, etc. His mom’s pretty cool. Narrator mostly great, but actually wish he wouldn’t try so hard with some of the characters’ voices; can be hard to understand at times.
I'm glad I gave this book another go and I'm looking forward to reading the next one. I really liked the narrator - I hope he has narrated the others.
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Jan 09, 2012
Juliane
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