Agreed. It's like someone else wrote the latter part of the book.
Started on Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards, about a mercenary company. It's one of those brutal, gritty low-magic fantasy books and not bad so far.
Just ordered Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch, it is the third in the Rivers of London series. Think a very British spin on the Dresden Files, although modern British, so like the modern BBC Sherlock crossed with magic and Pagan gods, and less Pulp American detective wizard.
Rivers of London is the first book in the series which I highly recommend, although I think the title was changed in the US.
Started Stephen King's Dark Tower series - not far into The Gunslinger right now. Not sure how I like it, though. It's been at least 15 years since I read anything by King, and that was his horror stuff.
I have to stop reading these "What are you reading" threads. I should be working, and instead I've been unable to put this book down for the past hour and a half.
Whispers Under Ground or Rivers of London?
Just finished Rivers of London and Moon over Soho, and will probably start on Whispers under Ground today.
Sadly, the quality of the editing is rather poor. Some typos might be down to the conversion to epub format, but the writer's use of commas and his sentence structure leave a lot to be desired, and I've come across multiple instances of 'then' instead of 'than'. Otherwise the books are really good.