leizngik 's review for:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

3.75

dark tense slow-paced

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Quite slow in the beginning, takes time to build out the world. Then very fast, the last half is utterly breathless. The worldbuilding is incomparable and I love Mieville's ability to paint the city. Clinches it with some thoughtful, complex character developments.

However one character befalls a truly brutal fate just so another character can have a basic conscience, and it doesn't sit well.