Whatta Fiasco

Frustratingly, I didn’t really start to care about most of these characters until just as the book was ending. Just as I was ready to get invested in the story, it ended.

[powells]

This was one of those books where I was glad to get it done so I could go read what other people were saying about it. Yes, an interesting book. My biggest complaint is that the beginning of the story, the coming of age of Green, doesn’t meld well in my reading with the rest of the book.

[powells]

This feels like two books stuck together, or maybe even three. All of them were good stories but I wanted more of each of them. I also suspect that not having read the novel before this didn’t help.

[powells]

The previous novel in this set, Trial of Flowers blew me away. This one didn’t quite live up to that mark, but still a good read.

[powells]

A pleasantly unpleasant return of Abigail and Sebastian. Go read New Amsterdam first.

[amazon]

Fabulously literal urban fantasy. And while it’s still full of the disconcerting strangeness of Mieville, it’s easily the most approachable of his books.

[powells]