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rachels_creative_username 's review for:
The City & the City
by China Miéville
I appreciate that Miéville chose to really stick to the noir detective story style here. It’s a big change in tone/prose from the only other of his works I’ve read (Perdido Street Station) but he does it well.
Overall, The City & The City was good, but not great for me. I feel like, once you figure out what the situation is with the two cities and all the seeing/unseeing (which, if you don’t figure it out for yourself before then, it starts getting directly explained around chapter 5, so pretty early on), most of the fun is gone and the remaining crime story just wasn’t enough to keep me engaged.
This won’t go on my list of all time favorites by any means, but I’m not mad I read it and will keep checking out more Miéville.
Overall, The City & The City was good, but not great for me. I feel like, once you figure out what the situation is with the two cities and all the seeing/unseeing (which, if you don’t figure it out for yourself before then, it starts getting directly explained around chapter 5, so pretty early on), most of the fun is gone and the remaining crime story just wasn’t enough to keep me engaged.
This won’t go on my list of all time favorites by any means, but I’m not mad I read it and will keep checking out more Miéville.