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Alex Tang bpl — Interesting to find a different structure to a story and then watch the development of the relationship between the two main characters. It allowed a much longer time frame for the novel without feeling something was being skipped over, or alternatively without dragging on. Has encouraged me to try more of the author's work

Ariful Islam arifulbd97 — Salubrious. Pugnacious. Ossified. Juddering. These are not words that I am using to describe China Mieville's writing, but words that China Mieville uses to describe, well, everything. The most irritating part of his otherwise excellent Perdido Street Station is still very much in play in The Scar - that is, Mieville is still kinda unsure of himself, he still feels the need to prove himself, and his method of choice is Big Long Vocabulary Words. The problem is that he latches onto one, and then uses it again and again, sometimes in slightly questionable context. As a result, it can feel like he opened a dictionary at random, found the most obscure word on the page, and then dropped it into his narrative wherever it could possibly fit. Anyway it's not the best-written book I've ever read. It does, however, come close to being one of the most imaginative - even more so than Perdido Street Station, I think. This is why almost all of the critical reviews that get quoted on China Mieville dust jackets praise his creativity, imagination, inventiveness, etc, almost to the exclusion of any mention of how he writes. In his defense, he seems to be getting better as he goes. The Scar is more self-assured than Perdido Street Station, has fewer cringe-moments, is constructed with much greater artistry. And it unfolds the world of Bas-Lag into a much wider, more bizarre arena than we would previously have guessed. All in all, it's a fantastic story in a fantastic setting, supported by medium-strength writing, and I am okay with that.

Abeer Muhammad abeermuhamfa22 — Over all I thought the book was interesting. The concepts regarding the total invasion of privacy by the government were powerful, imaginative and timely. Excellent use of imagery throughout. However, I did not like the ending too much. The arcane forms of torture and interrogation that were described seemed to be a reach. And it was not at all clear if the main character lives on, or merely hallucinates the remainder of his life.

Zyla Courtney zyla — This is one of the handful of books I've ever bought in my entire life after reading a review in the newspaper. (The others on that short list include "The Lovely Bones," "The Secret Life of Bees," "A G-Man's Life," and a lot of Oprah-type chick stuff.) I was working for Artists Rep at the time and we were in pre-production for "Assassins," a Sondheim musical about a ragtag band of misfits made up of everyone who's ever assassinated, or tried to assassinate, a U.S. president - the same ragtag band of misfits, and then some, brought to life by Vowell in this book. Coincidentally, the book opens with Vowell at a theater festival waxing romantic about the musical "Assassins", to the horror of the conservative old couples staying at the bed and breakfast with her. She focuses on the Big Three - John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln), Leon Czolgosz (William McKinley), and Charles Guiteau (James Garfield), and all their many accomplices, friends, enemies, bemused family members, and acquaintances who add color and weirdness to their stories. Guiteau was a member of an upstate New York sex cult. Czolgosz was in love with the feminist revolutionary Emma Goldman. Booth and Lincoln's son were in love with the same woman. As Vowell travels around the country to bizarre historical landmarks, shocking and horrifying more sedate tourists with her bloodthirsty enthusiasm for gory relics, and dragging along bored friends and relatives to overwhelm them with trivia, the sheer freaky weirdness of our country's history comes vividly and crazily to life.

Fanni Bajer maxyvert — ** spoiler alert ** Curious what-if. Nicely atmospheric but ultimately too slim to really generate the menace necessary. Sort of DeLillo lite. Too, Donald's fate is not quite as refreshingly dire as some (eg, me) might want...