May's read was China Miélville's Kraken. The book had an interesting premise. The Charles Darwin Center had a giant squid exhibit. Billy Harrow was taking a tour group through the museum and discovers someone walked off with the display. The baffling part is how does one make off with a giant squid and its display tank. The answer, with some form of magic. Why? To end the world.
What follows is a tongue in cheek exploration of the magical underworld of London.
China Miélville tended to overuse the East London accent. Because I'm not familiar with the Cockney idioms, I found that rather distracting. Mr. Miélville also spent a good portion of the book world building. Just when we are about to get on with the story, and a new character or element was introduced. The book really didn't pick up until most of the way through. I think he also tried to make the novel into a twist end story. That can be hard to do. Do you think he succeeded in making a twist end novel?
May's read was China Miélville's Kraken. The book had an interesting premise. The Charles Darwin Center had a giant squid exhibit. Billy Harrow was taking a tour group through the museum and discovers someone walked off with the display. The baffling part is how does one make off with a giant squid and its display tank. The answer, with some form of magic. Why? To end the world.
What follows is a tongue in cheek exploration of the magical underworld of London.
China Miélville tended to overuse the East London accent. Because I'm not familiar with the Cockney idioms, I found that rather distracting. Mr. Miélville also spent a good portion of the book world building. Just when we are about to get on with the story, and a new character or element was introduced. The book really didn't pick up until most of the way through. I think he also tried to make the novel into a twist end story. That can be hard to do. Do you think he succeeded in making a twist end novel?