When I saw the ads for the upcoming movie I decided to bump this book up to the top of my TBR pile. It's a very quick and easy read. I feel like a lot of books could benefit from tighter editing, but this is not one of those books. A lot happens and it happens fast.

What I did like is the general idea of cities on tracks and wheels. It just seems absurd and yet intriguing. Also the "municipal darwinism" that the people of London live by. Unfortunately all that didn't translate into a book I could enjoy. A lot of other people did, so that's good. It's just not a book for me. The characters were so-so. Because of the breakneck pace of the book there wasn't much room for development. The story was a bit crazy at times. After I decided that I will not continue the series, I read the plot summaries for the remaining three books in this tetralogy and was glad I didn't spend any more time with them.

As the ratings so far show many people enjoy this book, I just didn't. I'll still go see the movie, though. Looks like fun.

On a side note, from what I've seen so far they made Hester Shaw not suffer the same kind of disfigurement as in the book. That'll make some people mad.