Rivers of London (Rivers of London #1) -

Ben Aaronovitch

Gollancz

2011

390 páginas

13h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780575097568

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden . . . and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair. The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.

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Estava muito animada pra ler esse livro, já tinha começado ele há um tempo atrás e li até um ponto que me deixou uma ótima impressão, mas eu acabei parando de ler.

O livro é interessante, mas o personagem principal me incomodou várias vezes com os constantes comentários sobre as mulheres, muito mais pela repetição que outra coisa. Fiquei torcendo pra ele arrumar uma namorada e talvez parar com isso.

O plot em si é interessante, a ideia é boa, mas em algum lugar o livro me perdeu, mesmo que eu quisesse saber qual era o próximo passo, a construção dele era sempre morna pra mim. Queria muito ter gostado mais, por uma expectativa criada quando comecei a ler.