jamestomasino 's review for:

The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves

1.0

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DNF. I'm really sad that this wasn't enjoyable. The writing was trying way too hard to be something masterful but forgot to actually say anything along the way. Style? It's completely disjointed. I can feel when China is writing and when we suddenly have Keanu's voice instead. There's no blending. The story itself? There was something interesting at the heart of it, but the main character is so foreign in nature that he's alien, and nobody else has any development worth noting.

I really wanted to like this. At times the prose felt like Dune, but then nothing really happened. I made it about 1/3rd of the way through before I stopped caring enough to continue. Perhaps it picks up later.