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London Falling (2013)

by Paul Cornell(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

076533027X (ISBN13: 9780765330277)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Tor

series

Shadow Police

review 1: I'm not usually a big fan of the London-fetishizing urban fantasy sub-genre. Possibly it's just because I'm not a Londoner and find the capital irredeemably awful, but too much of it reads like a vaguely jingoistic retread of Neverwhere, a book I didn't much like in the first place. I'd liked Cornell's Dr Who novels so finally got round to trying this, and I'm glad I did. It finally takes the sub-genre out of Neverwhere's shadow and is a great page-turner in its own right. Yes, it gets a little bit C. S. Lewisy towards the end, and not in a good way, but for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed it.
review 2: This is a procedural detective story where an alternative London bursts on the scene and needs to be taken into account. We and the detectives don't really k... morenow what's going on so we find out together during this story (ie no wise teacher/mentor to explain things). It's also a serial killer story so I do have my usual reservations about that (the stories that focus more on the killer and the people getting killed are just necessary props because it's a serial killer story). I really liked the idea and implication of 'remembering', and I will pick up book 2 if I see it anywhere as the characters were interesting enough for me to know what happens next. less

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