alexhaydon 's review for:

The Scar by China Miéville

5.0

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I want to visit Bas-Lag, New Crobuzon, Perdido St Station and Iron Bay! Miéville swept me into the story so seamlessly, no page felt wasted. Every character was interesting and unique with different motivations. I love the snooping, the plotting and uncovering of secrets and betrayals that came about in this novel. Now very keen to get to Iron Council to complete the Bas-Lag world. Overall I preferred the weirdness of Perdido but this story felt unsettlingly creeky and dark in a very successful way, just not as colourful and hallucinatory as I like my weird books but that is really a me problem and not a reflection of the book. It gets 5 stars 🥳