lalehpop 's review for:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

4.0

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This was my Speculative Book Club’s June pick! Perdido Street Station is truly unlike any other book I’ve read. The scope of the book is unfathomable- any chapter feels like it could be the basis for another entire book. This had to have been intentional on Mieville’s part, I’m assuming that he has a massive world built in his head of which he provides slivers to readers. It’s a very well planned book: the pacing is excellent, the world is huge, any character could be made into the protagonist. I really enjoyed the journey of reading it and will probably reread it at some point because I definitely missed a lot on my first try. That being said, it’s weird on the women front and it’s difficult to start because of the unfortunate opening bug person sex situation… I don’t think I’d pick it up myself but I’m glad that this book club gives me the push to kind of diversify the types of books I read while staying within my favourite genre.