Kraken - China Miéville

If asked what type of stories I was particularly inclined to, my automatic answer would not actually be “people with super/magical powers trying to stop an apocalypse, ft. time travel and/or timeline shenanigans,” but considering my main media consumption this month has been 1. Umbrella Academy (TV show + comics), 2. rereading Homestuck, and 3. Kraken by China Miéville, I think I may have to admit I definitely have a Type. The heart wants what the heart wants, I guess?

In a modern-day London where the magical and the mundane live side by side, a city carved up by turf wars between competing apocalyptic cults and magic criminal gangs, a god goes missing. This god – and there are many of them – is a giant squid, preserved and on display at a museum. Billy, the museum employee who helped preserve the squid and first discovered its theft, finds himself an unwilling prophet of the squid cult, and is drawn into a plan to get it back.

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