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Review title: Almost five stars
Product review: I stumbled upon this novel in the worst of ways, noticing its intriguing cover on the shelf of a local bookstore, I ignored my first grade teacher's exhortations to 'not judge a book by its cover' and picked it up and was immediately engrossed. This is a genre-bending piece that mixes motifs form horror, sci-fi and fantasy into a rich and variegated world populated by fantastic creatures, drug fiends, proto-fascistic politicians, and creatures from paralell dimensions. While many of his ideas ring unique, it was his richly-detailed rendering of New Crobuzon and his unabashed love of the language- its sound and texture as it leaps off the page- that really demonstrate his prowess as a writer. That being said, the plot did tend to lag at times and the characters weren't the most imaginatively drawn that I have ever read. Nonetheless, the book over all is a stunner and well worth the read.
