| Re: The Scar
I have just finished The Scar and really enjoyed it from start to finish. The ending wasn't such a let down as I had been expecting (from reading this thread!).
This was my first China Mieville book and I have got to say that I loved it. The characters, the descriptions, the creatures and the inventiveness were all spellbinding. The rage and the emotion of the characters as they discover how they have been used seems very real indeed. The story seems to have been written against a rich backdrop of many many other things going on although the endless names of distant nations and races sometimes got a touch confusing though. Several of the characters have fascinating histories which would probably make interesting novels in themselves.
Must go and search out more by the same author. |