Rivers of London Volume 1: Body Work
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Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comics & Graphic Novels
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comics & Graphic Novels
Book Type: Paperback
The description paragraph on this is wrong. Peter and Guleen have to find out why two cars have suddently become homicidally haunted. Along the way Nightingale shows them another really haunted car.
It's Peter Grant and Rivers of London, so it's got some good moments. It makes for an interesting short story, and it's fun to see the artist's conceptions of Peter et al. But it turns out what I like the most about the books are Peter's long conversations with the reader, and his descriptions of London, his snarky thoughts about the police bureaucracy, speculation about Molly and so forth. A graphic novel by design is heavy on pictures and light on dialogue, which isn't what appeals to me. For me, reading the little dialogue balloons turns every conversation into terrible choppy bits of sentences, like a bad impression of William Shatner. Aaronovitch drops bits of these into the books, so of course you're curious to know more about them, but unless the library has them I'm not going to look for more - I just didn't get enough out of it.
It's Peter Grant and Rivers of London, so it's got some good moments. It makes for an interesting short story, and it's fun to see the artist's conceptions of Peter et al. But it turns out what I like the most about the books are Peter's long conversations with the reader, and his descriptions of London, his snarky thoughts about the police bureaucracy, speculation about Molly and so forth. A graphic novel by design is heavy on pictures and light on dialogue, which isn't what appeals to me. For me, reading the little dialogue balloons turns every conversation into terrible choppy bits of sentences, like a bad impression of William Shatner. Aaronovitch drops bits of these into the books, so of course you're curious to know more about them, but unless the library has them I'm not going to look for more - I just didn't get enough out of it.
