Perdido Street Station

Takes a few hundred pages for the action to get going. But I really loved it when it kicked off. My interest dissipated a bit towards he end though. Some of the actions taken by the characters are a bit stupid, which I always fi d really grating (e.g. some elite mercenary dies in a really stupid way because it makes the story more dramatic). The world is really original and richly drawn though. I loved the wyrmen. Overall liked it a lot.

An amazing read, [a:China Miéville|33918|China Miéville|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1243988363p2/33918.jpg] is a great author. The book is a mix of steampunk, urban fantasy, horror, and much more. The city, New Crobuzon, is exquisitely described and it's the kind of place you feel is real... and that you don't want to live anywhere nearby. It almost feels like the city is a character in the book (similar as the other books I've read from him- [b:Kraken|6931246|Kraken|China Miéville|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275682282s/6931246.jpg|8814204] and [b:The City & The City|4703581|The City & The City|China Miéville|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266894982s/4703581.jpg|4767909]).
My only complaints is that there are parts where the book is all over the place and you might loose track of (or not know in the first place) what's important. It's also a bit darker than I would have liked and the while the ending was cool, it wasn't at all what I expected.