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3. The Characters
What did you make of the main human characters - Peter Grant, Lesley May, Thomas Nightingale, Alexander Seawolf etc? Did you find them engaging and/or credible? (In passing, I thought Toby was the best-drawn small dog I have met in a book for a very long time)
Comments
One observation about the police characters. They were universally competent and serving the public good. Where they had disagreements and rivalries, they were still able to work together, and respected each others' directives. For example, Seawoll is introduced as an enemy of Nightingale, a tough old-school copper. But after the Coopertown incident, when Seawoll arrives to take charge, the first thing he does is check in on Peter and Lesley. Seawoll may be gruff, but he's still a decent man.
It was a refreshing change from these kinds of stories that none of the characters was the "maverick loner" stereotype. All the police were working in co-ordination with the rest of the Met.
True - but are "maverick loners" a feature of the British cop story? I suppose Cracker was - but isn't that kind of rare?
I did quite like the police aspects and characters. I think that if the author had lighted up on the D&D monsters and rather just focused on the ghosts and magicians, I would have liked the book a lot more.
I loved all the characters. Sharply drawn, and very real and human.