The disappearance of a prize exhibit at the Darwin Centre leads to a curator becoming dragged into a secret struggle of cultists, and magic, and the upcoming Apocalypse, all set in a dangerous London running alongside his own.Unlike 'The City & The City', which was a slow burn, 'Kraken' wastes no ti...
...I couldn't make myself like it, I'm afraid. It felt like a Pollock painting - splashes of pretty colour, very witty banter, nice Neverwhere 2.0 world-building, etc. But the architecture is just not there. No arc, no blueprint. Just a mess of magic without rules. Why does stealing the kraken mess ...
Not your run of the mill MM romance... a tale of horror with some tantalizing tentacle sex thrown in. I'll admit I did some skimming towards the end, not into genuine torture. But it was an interesting tale of small town magical secrets and old fashioned evil.
I wanted to like this book. It seemed like it contained the type of weirdness that is right up my alley. I expected to enjoy it, but it was a total let down. The characters in this book are utterly forgettable, and the plot was confusing (possibly because I couldn't be bothered to care about what h...
Billy is just another guy who works at a museum making certain squids are okay for bottling. But when the largest specimen goes missing, he suddenly gets roped into a dangerous affair involving a completely different side of London that we have never seen before. And as the magic and mystery of find...
When reading any book by China Miéville, I find that I have one of two reactions. Either I struggle for a good few chapters at the beginning, unable to grasp on to the writing and ideas until suddenly I get hit by this recognition that this book may in fact be an absolute masterpiece, after which I ...
No lo terminé de leer. Llegué al tercer cuarto del libro con mucho esfuerzo, y solo porque soy fan de Miéville. Es la versión inglesa surrealista de American Gods. Pero eso no fue lo que me repelió, sino toda la cháchara y el slang irrelevante. Un tercio del libro es solo blablá que no aporta a la h...
Billy Harrow is a curator at the Darwin Centre in London. On a day like any other, he prepares to lead a tour through the exhibition rooms only to discover that the prize exhibit - a gigantic squid preserved in a tank - has somehow been stolen overnight, tank and all. From then on, Billy's hitherto ...
"This has always been about writing" (425), the central insight in a novel that presents as its overt antagonists, for most of the way, an opposed pair of graphical persons. For each, "his communications were him" (422).That the additional, covert antagonist's plan--to place certain historical fact...
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