Mieville is one of my top 5 authors but almost entirely because of his Bas-Lag novels. The others I've found cool and fun but not as good. This one was no exception. It was dark, gritty, disgusting, violent and original but not totally my kind of thing. I loved Lop Lop.

I didn't fully understand the entire music angle until the end so it felt like it was just added because he was into that kind of music (Jungle). I was also never sure how Anansi's powers worked.