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Iron Council by China Mieville
A friend lent me three books of his, all set in the same fantasy world, and this was the final third one I've read. Man has an extraordinary (and sometimes perverse) imagination and a knack for world-building, even if his prose and characters don't quite match them. I really enjoyed Perdido Street Station and The Scar, this one though took a while to get into. Like, 200 pages or so. Which were mostly about a group of characters you don't get to know or care about, running from one mortal danger to another, for the sake of the mission which never gets explained until much, much, much later and is therefore hard to give a damn about. Luckily, at around 200 pages mark the book finally gets to tell the story of the Iron Council and from then on it was a blast to read. I just could have lived without the super-long preamble.
A friend lent me three books of his, all set in the same fantasy world, and this was the final third one I've read. Man has an extraordinary (and sometimes perverse) imagination and a knack for world-building, even if his prose and characters don't quite match them. I really enjoyed Perdido Street Station and The Scar, this one though took a while to get into. Like, 200 pages or so. Which were mostly about a group of characters you don't get to know or care about, running from one mortal danger to another, for the sake of the mission which never gets explained until much, much, much later and is therefore hard to give a damn about. Luckily, at around 200 pages mark the book finally gets to tell the story of the Iron Council and from then on it was a blast to read. I just could have lived without the super-long preamble.