The books are fantastic and utterly mind blowing. What an imagination. I’ve read them all and never failed to be entertained.

The Scar is an amazing follow up to Perdido Street Station. Though you don't have to have read it to enjoy The Scar. Mieville has an extremely vivid imagination and a profound ability to create unthinkable creatures and somehow paint them in our minds as if they were memories of familiar animal at a zoo. Cactacae, avanc, and grindylow may mean nothing to you now but after finishing The Scar you will have encountered ( or re-encountered) the vegetal cactus people, a mythical leviathan, and a monster of nightmarish shadow. The novel builds in momentum, never losing pace, but knowing when to stop and paint an intricate scene so we, the reader, are able to envision a floating city of a millennia's worth of scavenged and pirated ships where our central character, Bellis, finds herself press-ganged. You will not be dissatisfied with this read. Lots of fun, but filled with emotion and character.