Advantages: Crosses Genre boundaries, extremely well written, some haunting scenes that stay with you! Disadvantages: The author looks frightening, Eeeeeeeek! Not easily accessible at first, but that soon changes.
Perdido Street station shocked me in so many ways. It was one of those books that had me in a fit of anger because I had not read it sooner. As it had been first released in 2000 I was at that time in a wholly different frame of mind (a bit retarded you ...
Advantages: Glorious, exciting and completely un-putdownable Disadvantages: None at all
It’s huge, and its beautiful in a strange dark sort of way and reads like an Heironymous Bosch painting put into words… This incredible. fabulous fantasy tale is set in New Crobuzon. The sprawling metropolis who’s skyline is dominated by the build ...
Advantages: Engrossing, gripping and sharp. Disadvantages: Following the map!
I wanted to deliberately put this in the modern fiction section as I felt that it was too good a book to hide away in the sci-fi/horror category where only a small percentage of readers of a particular taste might read it! I want to spread the word to th ...
Advantages: Gripping Story makes for outstanding read Disadvantages: A few late nights, as I couldn't put it down!
Having never read a book by China Mieville before, and being intrigued by the blurb on the back all of them, this book seemed a good place to start.
Right from the start the story is interesting, building slowly and becoming more and more gripping throug ...
Advantages: The sadly-forgotten beginning of modern fantasy novels. Beguiling and Beautiful. Disadvantages: Slightly unpolished prose. And the lack of a plot might bother some...
“I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of conciousness…”
It’s appropriate that the narrator of “Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women” begins with a description of that vague, unreal feeling one exp ...
