Kraken

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In a review for The Guardian, Damien G Walter says: " Kraken seems as though Miéville is taking a step back from the artistic agenda that has previously informed his writing, perhaps to flex creative muscles grown stiff in the constraining seriousness of the New Weird. In this way, it would have been nice if Miéville had gone to the trouble of immersing us in his London far more intensively and with more variation earlier in the book. I still don't get how or why that worked in the universe he set up, unless the hero is just supposed to be God hisownself. On his latest tour, he walks into the room on which the centre’s giant squid specimen is displayed … only to find it missing, stolen.

The theft is puzzling, because there isn't really any stealthy way to remove such a large tank from the building, yet it happened without anyone noticing until the next morning.

En lo más remoto del ala de investigación del museo de Historia Natural hay un preciado espécimen, algo único e insólito: un calamar gigante que se conserva en perfecto estado. Enter that room and you breached a Schwarzschild radius of something not canny, and that cephalopod corpse was the singularity. Capítulos muy cortos, y los saltos de capítulo se producen justamente cuando uno espera en una serie o película que se vaya a los anuncios, en lo mejor. He never nails down any rules to the magic being used, and while that weakens the ending slightly, it means he can have people invoke magic in all sorts of different ways. This plunges Billy into a surreal experience involving squid cultists, unionized familiars, and living tattoos.

If this sounds overblown, it is, and Miéville knows it: here we have a prodigious imagination letting rip. Any novel that pays homage to The Sweeney with such splendid lines as "We're the bloody cult squad, Harrow," clearly has a playful intent. I found it fascinating and interesting, yet it was still a slog until the last 80 pages or so when the pace picked up.There is the FSRC—the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit—a branch of London’s finest that fights sorcery with sorcery. Hideous but at the same time peculiar crimes, special police squads, squirrels ( don’t ask ), Tattoo Man, underground city, prophets, wizards, gods, worshippers of all kinds of religion and cults.