mousie 's review for:

The Book of Elsewhere by China Miéville, Keanu Reeves

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

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the writing is atrocious, sadly. really interesting premise, and i think this would make a cool graphic novel or movie, but as a book...really bad. i couldn't even follow who was doing what in the first chapter.

The opening lines:

A room, full of violence to come. Then with the nasty white light of LEDs. Then a man came in and sat between the metal lockers. 

An excerpt from a shortly later:

The dark-haired man entered and that stillness broke and everyone went back to how it had been. The first man raised his scanner again, checking on its workings, took in the whole room in its scrying screen. He let it linger for another moment over he at whom he'd sneaked a look, switching his machine's registers, converting the soldiers into a landscape of colored contours.