The Scar

I loved this. Fun story, wild characters, cool world. I really enjoy the way Miéville writes.

yeah its possible

The first 50 pages were boring but once it got going I couldn't put it down. Great plot, writing - the shit this guy thinks up of is amazing.

Pretty much what I expected, although I thought it was not as good as the first book, but then they are only very loosely connected and completely different story lines anyway.

Overall it was a fantastic fantasy novel as a fantasy novel should be. Fantastic fantasy.

I feel really sad finishing this book. It was a long journey, it was such a great book that now I'm feeling empty. Oh Jabber, oh gods.

My favorite quote:

“They had never been each other. They had never been doing the same thing. Perhaps it was only chance that they had traveled together so far.”

Felt somehow a little flatter than [b:Perdido Street Station 68494 Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) China Miéville http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327891688s/68494.jpg 3221410], and I'm not completely sure why. Maybe just that it wasn't about a city, and therefore didn't resonate with me quite as strongly. I also didn't ever feel like I could really relate to Bellis; I disliked her for her coldness and self-absorption at the beginning, and while I warmed up to her a little over the course of the book, I can't really say I ever felt like I understood her.What points Miéville loses for the weirdly ambiguous ending, he easily gains back with his incredible world-building, complex characters, and some seriously creepy monsters. Not to mention that everything about his writing is completely delicious... As with Perdido Street Station, I found myself reading pretty slowly, sometimes rereading passages several times, because they were so dense with meaning and rewarding to linger over.

Stunning not only in its complex & imaginative world making (which we already know from Perdido Street Station) but also gripping for its risking-the-world events of insane scale, its moments of shuddering (gotta say it, Lovecraftian) horror, and characters of such depth and emotion and their constantly shifting relationships, I plowed through The Scar, almost incapable of putting it down til I'd finished it. I can't imagine it's possible that you wouldn't enjoy it.