Iron Council
Format: MP3 CD
ASIN: B005LVYH66
Publish date: September 7th 2011
Publisher: Audible Ltd.
Pages no: 18
Edition language: English
Series: New Crobuzon (#3)
This is the third and apparently final book in the New Crobuzon series. I’ve now read three books by China Miéville, more or less in a row, and I’ve consistently found the following things to be true:1. They were hard to get into at first. On the first book, I got hooked on the story at around the...
Seemingly April is the Month of Disappointing Sequels. Iron Council is the third in Mieville's Bas-Lag sequence (I hesitate to call it a series, because although I think you have to read each book to get the full effect of the next one, it doesn't follow the same characters or even the same arc, r...
I love the first two Bas-Lag books but it took me ages to get around to this third volume due to the relatively high number of less than enthusiastic reviews on Goodreads and elsewhere. Yes, I can be swayed by reviews if the consensus opinion leans towards the negative. At the end of the day though ...
While I didn't necessarily hate it, this was definitely my least favorite book out of all the books in this trilogy. Time to take a break from Mieville for awhile.
I loved Perdido Street Station and The Scar so i was highly anticipating a return to Bas Lag but i didnt expect to find New Crobuzon like this, oppression and revolution is all around, war going on with The Tesh, whilst outside the city an expedition is taking place to find the legendary Iron Counci...
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