| Re: The Scar
I enjoyed The Scar quite a bit. The piratical city-fleet of Armada is such a bizarre yet compelling creation, and there are a greater variety of interesting characters here, including the closes Mieville has come yet to an 'action hero' type - Uther Doul, the Lovers' strongarm man. I wouldn't say I liked it more than PSS - simply because I revelled in the urban setting so vividly captured in the earlier work. I'm an urban creature after all. I do agree that the ending is a bit at sea - if I may be forgiven the weak attempt at a pun! I actually wanted to discuss the ending and how it impacts the experience of the book in our Book Club discussion, but the discussion itself seemed to have wound by then. |