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luinealaNVCL
Feb 24, 2016luinealaNVCL rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
"Surreal" is usually one of the words used to describe Mieville, and this is him at his most surreal. I'm not sure whether I liked this one or not, as it left so many questions and answered so few. It did have a delightfully confusing narrative structure, with the boy switching from "he" to "I" regularly, and jumping randomly from present to past - this very effectively emphasized the boy's confused memory and mental state, and his unreliability as a narrator. Overall, I liked the pervasive, menacing, unknown dread that permeates the book, so in atmosphere and structure I can say I enjoyed it, but in plot and character it left me a bit unsatisfied.