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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter. io9
Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of Police Constable Peter Grant or the FollyLondons police department for supernatural caseseven when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the flats of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But the daughter of Lady Ty, influential goddess of the Tyburn river, was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favor.
Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the houses, where the law is something bought and sold on the open market, a sensible young copper would keep his head down and his nose clean.
But this is Peter Grant were talking about.
Hes been given an unparalleled opportunity to alienate old friends and create new enemies at the point where the world of magic and that of privilege intersect. Assuming he survives the week.… (más)
Rivers of London book 5. Peter Grant has to return a favor to Lady Tyburn when her daughter is implicated in a drug overdose. Of course, the Faceless Man is involved.
Nur eine kurze Notiz hier: Ich liebe den Schreibstil, die Aesthetic, die Fälle und das Magie-System. Fantastische Serie, fantastische Charaktere, ein Vergnügen sie zu lesen. ( )
A strange story, and difficult to follow in places. I'm not a huge fan of Lady Ty, or the Faceless Man, but I understand the need to have a filler, and to unmask the villain (Martin Chorley, by the way). Definitely funny and gruesome in places, and annoyingly complicated by the addition of the Americans - which all makes sense, in that police cases are never particularly clean. Confused... ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Through the streets our wheels slowly move;
The toll of the death bell dismays us.
With nosegays and gloves we are deck’d,
So trim and so gay they array us.
The passage all crowded we see
With maidens that move us with pity;
Our air all, admiring agree
Such lads are not left in the city.
Oh! Then to the tree I must go;
The judge he has ordered the sentence.
And then comes a gownsman you know,
And tells a dull tale of repentance.
By the gullet we’re ty’d very tight;
We beg all spectators, pray for us.
Our peepers are hid from the light,
The tumbril shoves off, and we morrice. Tyburn ballad as transcribed by Francis Place
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book is dedicated to all librarians everywhere – for they are the true keepers of the secret flame and not to be trifled with.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I dreamt that I heard Mr Punch laughing gleefully by my ear, but when I woke I realised it was my phone.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And I thought I heard laughter echoing out of the city, but it might have just been the traffic.
Hyde Park Corner is what happens when a bunch of urban planners take one look at the grinding circle of gridlock that surrounds the Arc de Triumphe in Paris and think - that’s what we want for our town.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And I thought I heard laughter echoing out of the city, but it might have just been the traffic.
His technical notes end with a quote from [[Anatole France]], loosely translated: The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.”
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter. io9
Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of Police Constable Peter Grant or the FollyLondons police department for supernatural caseseven when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the flats of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But the daughter of Lady Ty, influential goddess of the Tyburn river, was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favor.
Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the houses, where the law is something bought and sold on the open market, a sensible young copper would keep his head down and his nose clean.
But this is Peter Grant were talking about.
Hes been given an unparalleled opportunity to alienate old friends and create new enemies at the point where the world of magic and that of privilege intersect. Assuming he survives the week.
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