I never would have thought the day would come that I would empathize with... rats!
But a good writer can take you by the hand and lead you to places you would never imagine you'd find yourself in. For me, one of those unimaginable places is empathizing with rats.
This brilliant, dark, and disturbing retelling of the Piper of Hamelin fairy-tale managed the impossible feat of having me switch my allegiance and root for the rats, somehow.
China Mieville is a GENIUS.
His prose was a bit immature here, his pacing imperfect, but I nevertheless loved every page of "King Rat".
I can highly recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a good horror and is not easily upset by gore and on-page animal cruelty.