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A review by myth
Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch
5.0
I've been sent some interesting commentary on this book that I have to absolutely refute:
This series has never, ever, EVER been about Nightingale, much as I love him and to whatever degree he is an ATTACK ON ME PERSONALLY, AARONOVITCH.
To say so is to ignore the central themes of the series (change and evolution and the coming of a new, hopefully fairer and more accepting order) and the main character (Peter Grant, compassionate, reckless, lover of law and fairness and incidentally biracial, which I cannot help but think contributes to the baffling tendency of fandom to treat this series as if it is from the point of view of a sidekick instead of the central character and indeed central impetus for change in the whole world in this particular fictional universe).
Anyway. I'll probably come back with a more traditionally formatted review later, but I needed to get that off my chest.
This series has never, ever, EVER been about Nightingale, much as I love him and to whatever degree he is an ATTACK ON ME PERSONALLY, AARONOVITCH.
To say so is to ignore the central themes of the series (change and evolution and the coming of a new, hopefully fairer and more accepting order) and the main character (Peter Grant, compassionate, reckless, lover of law and fairness and incidentally biracial, which I cannot help but think contributes to the baffling tendency of fandom to treat this series as if it is from the point of view of a sidekick instead of the central character and indeed central impetus for change in the whole world in this particular fictional universe).
Anyway. I'll probably come back with a more traditionally formatted review later, but I needed to get that off my chest.