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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9390717" data-attributes="member: 18">No you are not missing any Peter books.But your feeling is one I share. The story just sort of stops in Amongst Our Weapons. I mean there are two fairly significant events at the end, but it really doesn't feel like a natural place to end and it leaves huge questions as to what's next. Also for some reason it ending in the summer (IIRC) seems wrong.It really feels like there should be another book covering the sort of "aftermath" and tie stuff up, but seemingly not. And the next book chronologically will apparently be one featuring alternate Abigail and Peter POV chapters and be set in Scotland, which seems like an odd follow-up (not coming out this year - probably next).There is a newer book (Winter's Gifts) with FBI Agent Kimberley Reynolds but she's an awful generic pastiche/stereotype of an American that I haven't read it, and it's chronologically before Amongst Our Weapons.EDIT - As an aside, I think generally Aaronovitch has kind of written himself into a corner with [all series spoilers] [SPOILER]the Rivers themselves. They're very very powerful. They abuse their powers (even with the attempted retcons in the last two books that it's 'not that bad', it's like yes it is). They're pretty unwilling to agree to any kind of formal limitations on their power except with other gods and even then it's sketchy, and indeed it would seem out of character for them. And when they were just part of the mystical goings on in general that didn't seem to matter. But now Peter is married to and has kids with one of them. A sharper author would see that that compromises Peter's position completely and have difficulties ensue from that. But the weird retcons about them being not that bad (which don't work because the early books exist and the entire series requires you to not see non-main people are irrelevant "NPCs" - unlike a lot of fantasy) suggest to me that he's struggling to "kill his darlings" as it were, and perhaps struggling to work out where the series is actually going. I think Aaronovitch sees the problem he's caused, and saw it at least a couple of books back, but is kind of trying to weasel out of it, rather than engaging with it.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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