Just finished "Kraken" by China Mieville. Wasn't bad, the world-building was very interesting, but the plot itself was rather conventional.
I picked it up because I wanted something with good quality prose and a fantastical type story, and I wasn't disapponted. But the storyline is meandering (the last third of the book was a bit tedious to get through), and the basic plot a quite conventional thriller.
The writing is good and solid, but one thing that was a bit annoying was his (over)use of - what shall I call them - rarely used words most often only found in dictionaries
It felt like an affectation.
The
style of this book was great, the world-building fascinating, but I'm missing an interesting plot, and a solid, well-constructed storyline. It's a "light" book all in all. Good writing - but I was also looking for a book with a point and some food for thought - this wasn't it.