Reviews

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

apersonfromflorida's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Torture, Police brutality, and Rape

Minor: Abortion, Vomit, and Sexual content

deedeereads's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

meedamian's review

1.0

While I do see how some people can enjoy it; For me going through it was torture, and I abandoned it 5-6 chapters in.

timinbc's review

5.0

This book has a wonderful atmosphere. As you read it you can almost feel the fog and darkness, and see a world of blacks and browns. You feel yourself thinking about finding a doorway to duck into. It's complex and rich, and I didn't want it to end.

smelliskay's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

Really good book. Great world building. Book took an odd turn about halfway through, almost feeling like it completely switches genres. The first half would make an excellent thriller if it were the full book, and the back half would make a good action adventure if it were the whole book. Having both holds it back a little. Also im all for grimdark but some choices at the end had me scratching my head. Almost felt like shit being dark just to be dark. All that being said very memorable book which I thoroughly enjoyed.

(Also can authors please stop springing undeserved truth bombs on us in the last 30 pages of 600+ page books thanks)

ecresswell's review

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

xnyhps's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

akrajkow87's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

lemoncakedragon's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

mpleet's review

4.0

Some really interesting dark ideas and fleshed out semi-dimensional characters. Pretty tight plot but strange additional characters and diversions.