The Furthest Station
A Rivers of London Novella
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3,3 • 14 Bewertungen
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Beschreibung des Verlags
A Rivers of London novella, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.
There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call. It's PC Peter Grant's speciality...
Only it's more than going 'bump'. Traumatised travellers have been reporting strange encounters on their morning commute, with strangely dressed people trying to deliver an urgent message. Stranger still, despite calling the police themselves, within a few minutes the commuters have already forgotten the encounter - making the follow up interviews rather difficult.
So with a little help from Abigail and Toby the ghost hunting dog, Peter and Jaget are heading out on a ghost hunting expedition. Because finding the ghost and deciphering their urgent message might just be a matter of life and death.
Praise for the Rivers of London novels:
'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London'
NICK FROST
'As brilliant and funny as ever'
THE SUN
'Charming, witty, exciting'
THE INDEPENDENT
'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups'
THE TIMES
Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels and novellas.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Aaronovitch's novella featuring PC Peter Grant of London's Special Assessment Unit (aka the Folly), which has the brief of investigating "disruptive phantasmagoria," is an excellent entry point to the Peter Grant series for newcomers who like their urban fantasies rendered with a light touch. Reports of a ghost on the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground prompt Peter to investigate, and he soon finds an eyewitness who saw a man fade out from view right in front of her eyes. But others who had reported having been assaulted by a "man who wasn't there" are less cooperative: seven complainants deny that anything untoward ever happened and even that they'd made complaints in the first place. The story is intriguing enough to pull readers along, and Peter's dry humor will linger in the memory: at one point he describes a shopping center that artfully combines "a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built."
Kundenrezensionen
Somewhat disappointed
I have greatly enjoyed the Peter Grant series and had been looking forward to the latest episode. Well, unfortunately this one hasn’t lived up to the other books. It struck me to be more of a prequel to the actual story...so I just hope for the next one to be a smash.
Short and boring
Easily the worst book of the series. Unintersting case and no progression in the overall storyline i.e. The faceless man or Lesley. It feels as though the author was either very rushed or lost interest in the series.
Ben Aaronovich (2017) The Furthest Station
The last book in this series was written without any esprit. There are three questions to be answered. What is the story, how do the characters evolve and where is the emotion.
The story would be in our world a severe crime and the author had to do some work, to place the story in the world of Peter Grant. Therefore he had to adapt the breadcrumps that lead into the story. But we do not get to know more about his police work than we already knew from his previous books. To be frankly, the story is flat. As a result we do not get to know more about Peter Grant. His relationship with Bev suffers under ignorance. Why in hell is there no interaction and why does the author gives away the world of the river gods? There is no emotion to sympathize with Peters relationship or his world of life. Last but not least alle threads from previous books were not further spun. In my humble opinion this book is a disappointment. You have nothing missed, when the next book comes around the corner that hopefully is more promising.