Homunculus

There is something about Blaylock's writing that gums up the works in my head. It just doesn't flow smoothly for me. It took me more than three weeks to read this one (and the exact same amount of time to read The Digging Leviathan), but that is not to say that someone else might not find the actual act of reading the book more fulfilling.

Now that it is read I get to enjoy it in hindsight. It is full of dark humour and characters whose worldview is clearly skewed and yet inhabit a world where supernatural absurdities run amok. Confusion is carefully calculated so that the reader is at once counted among the confused and aware of the actions of enough parties to enjoy their tripping over each other.

It's hard to know whether I will ever pick up any more Blaylock now that I have read these two, but I am glad to have been aquainted with his work.