A review by binstonbirchill
City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer

5.0

I found this first book in the Ambergris series as enjoyable as the southern reach trilogy. It contains a good bit of weird that will be familiar to fans of Vandermeer. City of Saints and Madmen is told in five very different parts, one of which is historical, with footnotes (and yes I read the footnotes). Overall the stories are about the city of Ambergris rather than any specific characters and it works quite well considering the style is one I generally don’t care for.