Josh Angel’s Reviews > Perdido Street Station > Status Update

How do you like it?

It’s much easier to read than I was expecting. This book is often spoken of as being more in the “literature” space than the Fantasy, so I was expecting dense writing, but it’s really pretty approachable.

I like the world of New Crobuzon, it’s like a metaphor for America: a big melting pot of cultures, or in this book, literal hundreds of sentient species so numerous, that the characters don’t even recognize what some of them are.

So far the plot is interesting as well. Overall, a much more entertaining reading experience than what I expected.