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This is a character that's been around for a while and even appeared in one of my minicomics. I couldn't really fit him in the first Maddy Kettle book, although one of his songs gets played on the radio in one scene. Initially he could see but maybe he can't. I have some misgivings about writing a blind character, I don't know much about it, but it seems to work for his character. He should be a central character in the second book.
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Less then halfway through this book it easily became one of my favorite books and definitely my favorite Jeff VanderMeer book. Ambergris comes alive here in a totally new way, revealing hidden depths and strange new Burroughs. It has the sense of richness of the previous Ambergris books but with an added sense of immediacy and truancy as it's a detective novel. A very hard boiled detective novel that reads more authentic and original then many contemporary "straight" noirish detective books. For me, something really clicked having Ambergris as a Victorian, steampunk, fungal, occupied city (Finch takes place one hundred years after Shriek.)
While you still have a sense of dislocation of an urban, New Weird story this story draws you in in an emotional level; unlike any other New Weird story I've read. The characterization is more compelling and more real. The city is broken in a way that that seems real and elicits sympathy.
An amazing ending.
Thanks so much Gabriel!