ttwheam 's review for:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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 Surrealism had a child with fantasy and Perdido Street Station came out. Darting from dream-logic to gritty Victorian-esque worlds. I've never found a fantasy world more alien.

I've never seen someone remove their fantastical world from that of our own as much. It felt like every page was true discovery. Almost puzzle solving.

I was lost and found over and over again.

I would hesitate to call this fantasy / sci-fi like it tends to be lumped in with.

Elements of the fantastical are woven in to a genre-defying narrative that feels almost like an exercise in losing me in a world.