Kraken : A Novel (Paperback)

from candlemark

An extremely engaging, erudite, and altogether weird book. I think I loved it.This is NOT a book for everyone - Mieville plays with words, phrases, tones, and meanings like a toddler plays with finger paint, presuming that toddler is in fact an artistic genius. There's splashes of colour and vibr...

from HarperGray

Having looked at a few reviews, it seems of some importance to note straight off that Kraken was my first Mieville book, and I went into it with no idea of what to expect from this author. My initial reaction is to compare Kraken (again, just this book, not Mieville as a writer) with Umberto Eco,...

from Knicke

I feel like this book owes a lot to Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods, but Mieville is an enjoyable writer in his own right. Best bits of this book were the descriptions of striking familiars, the Tatoo (what an awesome villain!), and the descriptions of the other villains, Goss and Subby. Mi...

from Schizophrenia86

I didn't expect too much from this book, just a neat little fantasy-story in a contemporary urban environment. At the beginning it made me think of Wolfgang Hohlbein's "Azrael" (being the only other "Urban Fantasy" book I read so far), but "Kraken" beats it by lenghts. Instead of just some quite ...

from KingRat

This is my least favorite Miéville novel to date. Maybe I'm just becoming more attached to tight, focused prose than I used to be. That's something that he's rarely accused of. There were too many characters, too little idea of what was going on, and too many plot twists that wiped out everything...