Title: A step down from Perdido and The Scar
Product review: This is a good book, however there are some weaknesses in it.1) You need to have read Perdido Street Station before reading this book. The explanations and background that he has in his first two Bas-Lag books are not included in this one.2) The first one hundred pages or so are on the weak side. Get through those and the book finds its legs.3) The characters in this book are not as developed as those in the first two Bas-Lag novels. In both PSS and The Scar he focused on one main and one supporting character. In Iron Council he splits his attention between three characters for the duration of the story.That said, it is a good novel. The world is richer than ever, and the setting is well integrated into the events from his other novels. If you enjoyed the first two, you'll like this one, and if you didn't like them avoid this like the plague.
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