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finished reading UN LUN DUN by China Miéville

China Miéville: UN LUN DUN (Hardcover, 2007, MACMILLAN CHILDREN\'S BOOKS)

What is Un Lun Dun?It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of …

It's a YA novel that twists the usual fantasy tropes about prophecies. Not my favourite of the two Mievilles I've read, but the urban wonderland keeps throwing the weird all the way through, never letting up for a moment; idea after idea.

A couple of critiques I do have: so many plot threads are introduced and run in parallel, and sometimes it feels like the author is in a rush to finish them; likewise, near the end of the novel, the author has to juggle the actions of 8+ characters, some of whom are part of scenes but only mentioned once every few pages.