Reading: Rivers of London: Water Weed
Jan. 20th, 2019 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartI'm feeling fuzzy and full of cold and not up to reading anything serious, so I thought I'd check if the latest collected volume of the Rivers of London graphic novels was available yet, and on discovering that it was, downloaded the kindle version as the ideal undemanding Sunday afternoon read.
Water Weed sees Peter and Nightingale invstigating drug dealing along the Thames after Peter experiences powerful vestigia from a batch of weed "confiscated" by Beverly Brook's young sisters Chelsea and Olympia. I thought the plot of this one was thin even by the standards of the graphic novel series, which does tend towards very lightweight casefic, and the supernatural connection was so minimal I couldn't quite see why Peter and Nightingale would be taking on the investigation instead of passing it over to another branch of the Met. I also didn't like the way the artwork presented female characters, which definitely crossed the line for me from "sexualised" to "objectified" (I don't like the first but definitely object to the second). Not my favourite of the series, and makes me wonder if the graphic novel element of the series is running out of steam.
Water Weed sees Peter and Nightingale invstigating drug dealing along the Thames after Peter experiences powerful vestigia from a batch of weed "confiscated" by Beverly Brook's young sisters Chelsea and Olympia. I thought the plot of this one was thin even by the standards of the graphic novel series, which does tend towards very lightweight casefic, and the supernatural connection was so minimal I couldn't quite see why Peter and Nightingale would be taking on the investigation instead of passing it over to another branch of the Met. I also didn't like the way the artwork presented female characters, which definitely crossed the line for me from "sexualised" to "objectified" (I don't like the first but definitely object to the second). Not my favourite of the series, and makes me wonder if the graphic novel element of the series is running out of steam.
