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China Miéville: King Rat (2000, Tom Doherty Associates) 4 stars

Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something …

Review of 'King Rat' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Very good. China leads on a drum and bass exploration of the London underworld. If you've read Neverwhere, you'll get strong echoes of it throughout, but this is darker and makes some hard turns from the story you might expect.

It's also more obvious that this is early writing from China - there are some unfired checkov's guns, some cheats at the very end, but overall it's a great book.