Title: lacked the texture and drama of earlier mieville
Product review: I keep finding myself wandering away from this novel after devouring the first two bas lag novels. For me, his description of the outlands really lacks the texture of New Crobuzon and the story is missing the drama of the earlier titles. While the novel tries to dramatize revolutionary impulse growing at the edge of a civilization, I think it may be too intellectual an exercise - too abstract.
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