The Scar
Ratings64
Average rating4.1
I feel really sad finishing this book. It was a long journey, it was such a great book that now I'm feeling empty. Oh Jabber, oh gods.
My favorite quote:
“They had never been each other. They had never been doing the same thing. Perhaps it was only chance that they had traveled together so far.”
Stunning not only in its complex & imaginative world making (which we already know from Perdido Street Station) but also gripping for its risking-the-world events of insane scale, its moments of shuddering (gotta say it, Lovecraftian) horror, and characters of such depth and emotion and their constantly shifting relationships, I plowed through The Scar, almost incapable of putting it down til I'd finished it. I can't imagine it's possible that you wouldn't enjoy it.
The first 50 pages were boring but once it got going I couldn't put it down. Great plot, writing - the shit this guy thinks up of is amazing.
I loved this. Fun story, wild characters, cool world. I really enjoy the way Miéville writes.
Pretty much what I expected, although I thought it was not as good as the first book, but then they are only very loosely connected and completely different story lines anyway.
Overall it was a fantastic fantasy novel as a fantasy novel should be. Fantastic fantasy.