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Mariska Rijnaarts ddexx — I'd tried previously to read another book by Mieville and abandoned it, so it counts for something that I made it through this book-- and for large parts of it, even, I really enjoyed it. The conceit is really smart and fun, and I mostly like the way that it is introduced to us, piece by piece. The mechanics of the world, especially in the early chapters when things are still unclear, is fascinating. But I think the book kind of loses steam as it goes-- to me, it started to slip when we got to Ul Quom, or whatever it's called, in the book's second half. There, what had been a pleasingly bent procedural becomes more of a conspiracy thriller, which is a genre I think I like less, and one which here seems a little out of place, since the stakes for readers are so low-- this isn't our world, nor is this a book likely to produce a sequel, so why invest in its makeup? Instead, the stakes shift for readers into metafictional territory, where the slip and slide of breach comes to be about genre, or at least that's the way I read it, but that's pretty anemic stuff. I'm being a lot harsher than I really felt about this-- I liked it, but at a certain point I kind of feel like it went off the rails a bit; the characters in the second half, starting with the lead detective there and going pretty much all the way down are just less fresh or realized than those in the first half of the book. And the mechanics of the world ultimately were less interesting than I'd hoped. It's not as good as Home Fires by Gene Wolfe, or Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music, two transcendent cross-genre sci-fi tales. Still, I'd read something else by Mieville, so not all is lost.

Qwe Qwe tuner34855d — I'm two-thirds of the way through and finding myself alternately bored and intrigued.