The City & The City

My first Miéville, definitely not my last. Consider myself hooked. A mysterious setup that feels like scifi and fantasy but reveals itself to be complicated human psychology. Enforced perception and un-perception, superposition of spaces into one two three jurisdictions. Painting a familiar picture of opposing cultures, living side by side, yet not living with each other.

The fifth star is missing because the end of the crime-story felt like a bit of a let-down after all the build-up. When complicated details have to be communicated out loud as confessions at gun-point, it feels a bit forced. But everything else, amazing!