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A review by shelbynordstedt
Kraken by China Miéville
4.0
Oh boy where to begin....
Well i got this book a LONG time ago, and didn't finish it until two days ago, which is very sad for me. It is not as if it goes by slowly, per say, it's just that I couldn't get into the characters. It wasn't until about 3/4 of the way in when i really started to care.
I think that it was science fiction-y in a way, but it wasn't set in the future, which was actually pretty cool. It has "magic" in it, which i like a lot. The only problem with it was that it was confusing at times, because they'd introduce this magic, but they wouldn't say what they were doing, they just started to do it and I'd find myself having to go back and read the section again because I had no idea what was going on.
Also, I had a problem with the ending. A huge problem. I guess I am one of the people that likes closure in endings, but this definitely didn't have one. So they have this thing in the book called time-fire, and whenever something is burned with time-fire, it is erased from the worlds memory, so when they figure out "who-done-it", the guy burns in the time-fire! Like seriously? So at the end the main character and all of his helpers have no idea why they just saved the world, or even that they did, only that shinannigans had ensued.
Over all I think it was a good book, and it's mainly for people who like the science fiction type, and have time, because this book does take a lot of time.
Well i got this book a LONG time ago, and didn't finish it until two days ago, which is very sad for me. It is not as if it goes by slowly, per say, it's just that I couldn't get into the characters. It wasn't until about 3/4 of the way in when i really started to care.
I think that it was science fiction-y in a way, but it wasn't set in the future, which was actually pretty cool. It has "magic" in it, which i like a lot. The only problem with it was that it was confusing at times, because they'd introduce this magic, but they wouldn't say what they were doing, they just started to do it and I'd find myself having to go back and read the section again because I had no idea what was going on.
Also, I had a problem with the ending. A huge problem. I guess I am one of the people that likes closure in endings, but this definitely didn't have one. So they have this thing in the book called time-fire, and whenever something is burned with time-fire, it is erased from the worlds memory, so when they figure out "who-done-it", the guy burns in the time-fire! Like seriously? So at the end the main character and all of his helpers have no idea why they just saved the world, or even that they did, only that shinannigans had ensued.
Over all I think it was a good book, and it's mainly for people who like the science fiction type, and have time, because this book does take a lot of time.