{"id":20844,"date":"2022-09-30T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20844"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:06:42","slug":"lies-sleeping-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20844","title":{"rendered":"Lies Sleeping, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lies Sleeping<\/a><\/em>, Audio Edition (2018) Ben Aaronovitch<\/a> narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Rivers of London)<\/p>\n

\"Lies<\/a>I picked up a lot I missed the first time around. I remember it being late, and needing to go to bed, but I just need to know more….<\/p>\n

So, I caught a lot this time.<\/p>\n

This is set in 2014, because the books are slower than real time.<\/p>\n

There is now a push to find and arrest The Faceless Man. It’s pulled in not just Guleed, but also Sewoll and Stephanopolous but also some regulars.<\/p>\n

First, Peter is Peter.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid it work?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI think so.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cCan you teach me?\u201d <\/p>\n

She laughed. \u201cMichael specifically said I wasn\u2019t allowed to. No matter what you said.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Nightingale called him up and told him to refuse if you asked.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDid he say why?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you should master at least one tradition before you move on to the next,\u201d said Nightingale, coming up the corridor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second, a lot happens in this book including the resolution of the Faceless Man’s story arc. Honestly, this book ended in such a way that I would have been ok had the series ended here.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t have liked it, but I would have been fine with the resolution of many arcs.<\/p>\n

And I adore the many questions that Peter asks, that I also want to know the answer to.<\/p>\n

I wondered if perhaps there was an upper limit to the capacity of the brain to retain memory. Perhaps their surplus memories manifested externally; perhaps that was the function of those strange god-ghosts like Sir William of Tyburn. It would also suggest that the Genii Locorum<\/em> retained the same organic brain that the rest of us made do with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I want to note again how I adore the variety of characters in the book.<\/p>\n

Waiting for us at the top was a small Vietnamese woman in a City of London Police uniform with SC tags denoting that she was a special constable. This was Genevi\u00e8ve Nguy?n, who had attended the Sorbonne.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And how he makes a point to describe every white character as such. There is absolutely no defaulting to white here. It’s marvelous.<\/p>\n

Another thing I noted is that everyone goes through a lot here–and at least one secondary character buckles under the pressure, and even Peter has issues.<\/p>\n

So funny that I started laughing uncontrollably. When I couldn\u2019t stop myself I clamped my hand over my mouth and went outside. The thing about having a stress reaction is that, even when you know you\u2019re having a stress reaction, that knowledge doesn\u2019t seem to do you any good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peter has gone through a LOT in recent years, and it be strange if he didn’t reach his breaking point (like he did talking to Beverley about Lesley).<\/p>\n

Seawoll turned his attention back to me\u2014 because obviously I\u2019m cursed. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want you to include a mental health component in your stage two discussion document,\u201d he said. \u201cI want it incorporated into the Falcon risk assessment matrix.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But mostly, I loved the snark.<\/p>\n

More takeaway, so I was definitely within range of a Chinese and kebab place\u2014 which narrowed my location down, I calculated, to somewhere in the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note: It is after this book that we no longer get a Peter Grant novel every year. We get comics and short stories, and side tales, but not much Peter. And I am great with that, because I want a happy author who enjoys writing, rather than a stressed and miserable author who feels required to write his characters.<\/p>\n

Publisher: DAW<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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