IIRC Kraken was described as 'an explosion in an ideas factory'. I liked the ideas but about half way through began to wish that Miéville would calm down and explore in more detail some of the characters / concepts he'd introduced earlier in the novel.
I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.
