Title: This train moves slowly and the destination isn't worth the trip.
Product review: I have to add my vote to the other reviewers who found this book to be a disappointment. Everything good in the first two books falls flat in this one. I suspect Mieville was dissatisfied also because he completely changed gears with The City and City. That book is a must read and succeeds on all the levels Iron Council fails at. The City and the City isn't really even a fantasy novel but it seems so much stranger and deeper. It takes you to a place you've never been but will recognize-Iron Council takes you to a graveyard of elements of other, better books.
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