I didn’t really enjoy this one. I love several of Mieville’s books (Perdido, The City & The City, and Kraken as my three standouts) and I recently watched all of the John Wick movies in a weekend.

I like other “weird fiction.”

I was ready to like this!

I didn’t. I read a review and the reviewer stated that this book felt like separate scenes in a movie… and yeah, I totally felt that. The characters didn’t really flesh out into their own. I found the background of Unute (admittedly the main character) too bizarre that it was borderline dumb.

Bummer.

Oh andbut!

This “word” appears twice in this book. Actually, both times it does on its own line:

Andbut

Ah well. To the used bookstore it goes.