Abandoning this one after a couple hundred pages. Am I missing something? I thought China Mieville was supposed to be the second coming of science fiction authors. 
 I appreciated that he set up a unique and interesting environment with the two cities sharing the same space. Seriously though, if I have to read the word 'crosshatched' one more time I'm going to lose it. 
 Ultimately this just seemed like an overly elaborate murder mystery with a lot of weird words. 
 A+ for ideas, China. D for execution. 
 Maybe his other books are better?