Review: The City & The City by China Miéville

I finally read another book off the very top of my GoodReads TBR pile. I don't remember how I found out about this book back then, but I am so happy that I finally read it. It is confusing as hell at first, but the story line is damn good.

It definitely takes place somewhere in the middle east or southern Europe. It had some dystopian aspects such as Big Brother from 1984, it reminded me sort of the Berlin wall and East and West Berlin. It had mentions of the Cold War.

I thought I had figured out who had killed Mahalia right in the middle, but it was someone totally unexpected and it was just confusing. I had times when I picked up this book and started reading it, and then had to put it down for RL situations, but then I found it hard to pick it back up again. It also didn't help me get through it in a timely manner since I was sick all this week.

Inspector Borlu was my favorite but I didn't like how he had to stay on as a Breach avatar. Breach is the Big Brother equivalent. I think I would have so much difficulty trying to live in Beszel or Ul Qoma.

I am not going to try to summarize this book, because that would just take way too long and it's just to hard to properly describe this book. Just know that there are two cities within each other and everyone is watched, and if you get caught breaching, your fucked!