snaillydia 's review for:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

2.0

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This book handled its action and plot masterfully, only to fumble at the last second.

The nature of the garuda’s crime was obvious the moment they called it “choice theft”. It wasn’t a surprise. I am just disgusted at the way it ended up factoring into the story. The rapes of two female characters are only used so our male protagonist can have his little moral dilemma. The victims are given no agency. This book wants the shock value of rape but has zero interest in its victims. So fucking gross.