christianbk's reviews
378 reviews

The final book in the trilogy was quite different than what I imagined it would be after reading the first. All together, this was a fantasy-horror series presented as one that would be steeped in politics and roving lipstick” that the first book paints. I rolled with it and found it to be worthwhile. This book has a LOT in it, which I’m kind of OK with in other books when things aren’t always described fully but you get to figure out as they continue getting mentioned and you can then suss things out by your own.

There are a couple elements of the story I didn’t care for but it didn’t drag things down for me too terribly.

I loved this book!!

The author states that this book is about work and is also equally about love. I agree… and I’ll also add: It’s about aging in your twenties and the acknowledgment and acceptance of phases in your life.

I appreciated a really fun literary trick in a specific section that was creative and quite memorable.

Some background of video games is nice to have but not a need to have.

I grok the influence of this book when it was released. However, it largely fell flat to me.

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.