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I'm finding that the more books that China Mieville adds to his resume the more well-rounded he becomes as a writer. After having finished The City & The City I think it's his most complete novel to date and it just sort of shows his natural progression. I don't mean to say that he's an absolutely amazing author but if you look at Perdido Street Station, it had some holes and the ending was pretty weak, the Scar was great but I found the ending once again wasn't too hot, Iron Council (and I'm probably in the minority) I thought was his best but once again it sort of was flat at times. Where as with his newest I really can't find too many flaws with it, it's definitely not my favourite of his but everything is wrapped up neatly in the end, the characters aren't too cliched (which seems to be a tendency for a lot of authors when writing murder/mystery thrillers), and the story is interesting. I liked it.
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Pascallion posted:I liked Scar the best. I enjoyed a lot of aspects of PSS and Iron Council, but IC in particular didn't gel with me. I agree with you, there was definitely some stupid poo poo in Iron Council. To be fair though, it's a science fiction/fantasy book and you sort of have to toss aside the semantics for the duration and suspend your belief. It's been awhile since I read it but I just assumed that they could regulate the speed of the train which allowed them to bring up the track from the back so that it didn't outrun them. As far as their return goes, when they reconnect to the existing line, I don't know what stopped New Crobuzon from just putting a big girder across the rail gauge. But hell, if they did, it would have been a pretty lame ending.
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