Aneel reviewed King Rat by China Miéville
Review of 'King Rat' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Good. Less lushly described, and definitely more grounded than Perdido Street Station.
352 pages
Published June 30, 1998 by Macmillan Publishers Limited.
King Rat
4 stars
(3 reviews)
A London man is enrolled by the King of Rats to assassinate the Pied Piper of Hamelin who dethroned him. The man is Saul, whose rat mother joined humanity, making him immune to the piper's call. In his rat persona Saul eats garbage and climbs walls.
