The Price of Expectations

Day 11 – A book that disappointed you

Most recently, Kraken by China Mieville, which I discussed in the last Galactic Suburbia – I do blame myself for this, not so much because of reading it as an e-book (I'm over that) but because I failed to notice ahead of time the obvious signs that it was a text heavily influenced/inspired by Lovecraft, and even once I worked that out, I failed to take into account just how hard I bounce off any fiction at all which is heavily influenced/inspired by...