I'm taking a break from Jeffery Deaver mysteries (although I have a few more of those in my hopper) to try out China Miéville's "The Scar." I've heard really good things about his novels but have never read anything by him; when I saw this book at the library book sale for fifty cents I decided to give it a whirl. I'm not very far in but it's already intriguing. I can tell the author's a world-builder along the lines of Scott Lynch and his "Locke Lamora" series - and while so far I've enjoyed Lynch's works much better, I admittedly have seen much more of his world-building than I have of Miéville's. So we'll see.
Johnathan
Johnathan