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False Value (Rivers of London #8)
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bookshelves: urban-fantasy, 2020, favorites, 2022
Sep 11, 2019
bookshelves: urban-fantasy, 2020, favorites, 2022
Read 2 times. Last read April 3, 2022 to April 9, 2022.
The next book in one of my favorite series with a cover done in my favorite color scheme.
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Release date now FEBRUARY of 2020...
*side-eyeing every single comic book Ben Aaronovitch worked on this year instead on this book*
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Really good. So good that I'm no longer side-eyeing all those other things Ben Aaronovitch worked on last year instead of this book. He can work on whatever he wants from now on and I won't make snide comments as long as he keeps on producing this level of quality.
Everything in this installment of the series is exactly what I'd been missing from the last two books, The Hanging Tree and Lies Sleeping, and it's such a breath of fresh air to see the arch moving away from Lesley May and the Faceless Man mystery and see it heading into something new and exciting.
Rereading immediately.
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There were so many things I enjoyed about this installment, and those things brought back all the good feelings I had when I first started the series all those years ago. My mistake was reading it too quickly the first time, so I had to read it again slower the second time and was able to savor all the finer points that made this book such a great addition to the series as a whole.
So this isn't a review per se, just a list of things I thought were interesting and would like to remember.
(view spoiler)
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Cross-posted at
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Release date now FEBRUARY of 2020...
*side-eyeing every single comic book Ben Aaronovitch worked on this year instead on this book*
* * * * *
Really good. So good that I'm no longer side-eyeing all those other things Ben Aaronovitch worked on last year instead of this book. He can work on whatever he wants from now on and I won't make snide comments as long as he keeps on producing this level of quality.
Everything in this installment of the series is exactly what I'd been missing from the last two books, The Hanging Tree and Lies Sleeping, and it's such a breath of fresh air to see the arch moving away from Lesley May and the Faceless Man mystery and see it heading into something new and exciting.
Rereading immediately.
* * * * *
There were so many things I enjoyed about this installment, and those things brought back all the good feelings I had when I first started the series all those years ago. My mistake was reading it too quickly the first time, so I had to read it again slower the second time and was able to savor all the finer points that made this book such a great addition to the series as a whole.
So this isn't a review per se, just a list of things I thought were interesting and would like to remember.
(view spoiler)
* * * * *
Cross-posted at
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Reading Progress
April 12, 2019
– Shelved
February 25, 2020
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Started Reading
February 26, 2020
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15.0%
February 29, 2020
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33.0%
March 1, 2020
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45.0%
March 2, 2020
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67.0%
March 2, 2020
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70.0%
"No context quotes are the best quotes.
"Obviously variable bladder capacity had been a failure in my contingency planning but there wasn’t anything we could do about it now.""
"Obviously variable bladder capacity had been a failure in my contingency planning but there wasn’t anything we could do about it now.""
March 3, 2020
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78.0%
"More no-context quotes:
‘So we meet at last, Mr Bond,� said a voice.
The huge jars were filled with a swirling mixture of amber and yellow liquids and curled inside each, like a wizened foetus, was the shrunken body of a man. In my persona as James Bond � as played by Colin Salmon � I stepped forward and one of the curled figures lifted its head to stare at me with glowing red eyes."
‘So we meet at last, Mr Bond,� said a voice.
The huge jars were filled with a swirling mixture of amber and yellow liquids and curled inside each, like a wizened foetus, was the shrunken body of a man. In my persona as James Bond � as played by Colin Salmon � I stepped forward and one of the curled figures lifted its head to stare at me with glowing red eyes."
March 4, 2020
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Finished Reading
April 3, 2022
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Started Reading
April 9, 2022
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Finished Reading
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Mar 14, 2020 05:53PM
So excited for this - especially now that you say it recaptures the joy of the beginning of the series and is moving on to bigger newer things!
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Yeah, this was a fun read--I hope you like it.There were several amusing instances which I saw as subtle nods to Peter's humble beginning. I didn't realize that was what they were at the time though until I quickly reread Whispers Underground, and I now have an appreciation for the progression of the series in general and for Peter in particular.
I was wondering if someone could help me. I’m struggling through this book, and this is my favorite series. However, it seems like the chapters are out of order. This was either done on purpose, in which case I think it was done poorly. Or my version is screwed up. Did you run across the same thing?
Yes, I did, but the good news is there's nothing wrong with your copy of this book. The sequence of events at the beginning are not told in the linear way that we're used to seeing in this series. It jumps back and forth between December 2015 to January 2016 for about 30% of the book and then the narrative becomes linear again after this point. Whether or not there's a purpose to this particular choice of narrative is a matter of opinion. I personally didn't mind it, not once I got through it, but a few people did like yourself.
Anyhow, hope that helps and good luck.
Your review is the closest to my own view of the book, so thanks for sharing it. A lot of the views on here seem to be a bit ambivalent but once I was used to the non-linear beginning I was well away :)I'm slightly surprised that nobody (as far as I have seen) has used a certain word to decribe the finale. The portal, the malevolent gaze coming through it and the rotting fish vestigia all made me think 'Lovecraftian.'
