Status Updates From Broken Homes (Peter Grant, #4)

schon ein wenig schleppend am Anfang, gell?

Started!

Something akin to my reaction around this point...

‘If you're afraid of the wolves,’ said Varvara Sidorovna, ‘don't go to the woods.’

My stomach was churning. I didn't want to die in a dog fighting ring. In Essex, for god’s sake, what would my dad say? And my mum would be so pissed off with me. Better all-round if I avoided the whole dying thing altogether.

I'm really enjoying this one. Whispers Underground was a bit of a letdown, still good mind you, but this one so far seems to be a return to form and as good as Moon Over Soho which has been my favourite of the three I've read previously.

Once we were kitted up, all we were missing was a motion tracker — the kind that makes sinister pinging noises. Instead we had to make do with Toby.

We'd considered wearing uniform but Lesley said, what with her mask and everything, she'd look like a plastic cop monster from Doctor Who. I managed to restrain myself from telling her their real name.

Above the entrance was the compulsory Crittal-strip window so long and narrow that I almost expected a red light to start scanning from side to side while making a whumm, whumm noise. ;)

Struggling to get into this book. I have tried to like the Peter Grant books as they have received some good reviews but not from me, so far anyway.

Bin mal gespannt, wie das alles nun aufgeklärt wird.

Ich bin momentan krank und lese deshalb viel zu langsam. :(

Das ist der erste Band der Reihe, der nicht so fesseln kann wie seine Vorgänger und sich stattdessen gefühlt zieht wie Kaugummi. :/ Hoffentlich bessert sich das noch.

Love this series so much. It's got a bit of everything I like; magic, London, Kent, references to HP/GoT/Lotr, Latin and murder

It all came together in the end, seemingly unrelated crimes. great twist to finish it off.

"Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park— it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer’s plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness. It was also, in the case of Skygarden, strangely hard to access."

fallen princess: "Every estate has at least one of these per block. Middle- or upper-middle-class girls who’ve managed to overcome the advantages of their birth and end up in council housing with a child or an addiction or both. They’re easy to spot because they have a constant air of bewilderment, as if they can’t understand why the universe has stopped tilting in their favor."

heh, it is the heygate estate. I've walked past it enough times to know. author spends lots of time here describing the building's interior and exterior as well as the surrounding grounds. I'm guessing it's not just for kicks, a fight or chase will probably be staged here later. acquainting us with the environs will allow the action to flow more quickly.

is the skygarden a fictional conjuring of the heygate estate in e&c?

How does he do it? How does Ben Aaronovitch write such magical stories that feel so real? He paints the picture perfectly so that I forget I'm actually reading.

Aaronovitch sure does love his architecture.

These books are always such a treat - pure confection in the best possible way.

I'm listening to audiobook

the twist at the end was a shocker

Finishing the book was perhaps too big a stretch goal. 50% is respectable.

I'm going to try to finish this tonight.

I am finally getting to this so I can read the next one. I am listening to it on audio and almost wish I was reading it so I could highlight some of the many particularly delightful passages. But then I love to listen to this narrator. His voice for the Oberon character gives me chills!

I can't read any more of this book, I'm finding it harder to follow and its just not keeping my attention! I think 3 books were enough in this series. Which is a shame, I love the way Ben Aaronovitch writes...just not so much what he writes. Sorry!!

The high point was usually tea downstairs in the atrium, especially since Molly had reached the cake section in the Jamie Oliver book.

This is a re-read because the 5th book in the series was just released after being delayed from October and my copy is coming to me next Tuesday! I want to refresh my memory on what happened so I'm ready when it gets here! I love this series!