King Rat is a gamble I hope will pay off. I just saw this writer's novels at a used book store in LA and got three of them based on the plot. It turned out that this was the earlier novel and the other two were the last two parts of a trilogy of sorts. So did I like it a lot? Not really. I liked some parts of it. The prose was nice if a bit repetitive. I liked the fact that the protagonist was a rat. And not a cute and clean rat at that but a disgusting one eating trash and smelling awful from wading in shit at the seweres. I like the fact that someone dared to do that. Even Anita Blake has never slept with a wererat as far as I know.
The second thing I liked was the description of music. And a genre I don't understant or care (samples mixed and played by DJs) and he called it as it is.
I have purchased the audiobook of the first novel of the trilogy and hope that I'll like it more. He is not an instant fave this China Miéville but I kind of want to read more (thank God)
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