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...
Iron Council is China Miéville's most overtly political fiction work, but don't pigeonhole it. Between the revolutionary fervor, fantasy, trains, and Western-like parts runs a common theme of love and the painful, desperate, doomed human longing. I loved this book. It was not the insta-love like it ...
I can't get in to this book. A hundred pages in and I don't care about any of them or what they're doing. Miéville's prose is unusually hard work here.
A profoundly beautiful novel, perhaps the best speculative fiction that I've read, but likewise certainly enriched by reference to its close companion text, The Scar, which parallels it in important ways, as well as to Perdido Street Station, which introduces its setting.As in The Scar, the narrativ...
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