Perdido Street Station / The Scar

So I just finished reading this and I have mixed feelings about it.  On one hand, it truly is some excellent writing (even if Mieville appears to have a serious fetish for describing every thing ever) and the science/magic stuff is awesome.  On the other, the ending had to have been one of the most unsatisfying and depressing things I've ever read.  I mean, what happened with Yag, I could live with that on its own, but that coupled with Lin's condition, the lack of explanation behind Jack Half-a-Prayer and his involvement, and the lacking of Motley even getting so much as scratched left a sour taste at the end.

So now I'm debating whether or not to read The Scar.  Without any of you spoiling any of it for me, I need to know: is anything from Perdido Street Station resolved in it?  Is the ending at least someone satisfying?  Is it worth my time to read?

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The same thing happens in The Scar. Through Bellis' confusion, we are allowed to learn about her new home at the same rate as she does. The 'stranger in a strange land' feel allows a greater identification between reader and protagonist, as, unlike Isaac who springs to life fully formed, complete with coterie of friends and hangers-on, Bellis seems, as an above Anonymous has mentioned, to be still in a process of growth and development, and so is her understanding of the world. From the moment the book opens, Bellis never encounters one single character she knew from before deciding to flee New Crobuzon. Everyone is new. Everything is new. Even for a well-educated scholar from a large metropolis, the world is full of strangeness, mythical whispers and walking legends. The patchwork presentation of Armada sums up its patchwork nature: it is a jerry-rigged place, a whole cloth kept in one piece by the tensions of many different strings, pulled by an entire array of characters, all of whom have their own agendas and personalities. When Armada becomes saddled to a single purpose, it shows its weakness: it CANNOT be unified, and the dissension amongst the rulers mirrors the tensions which threaten to tear the city apart. Only an outside threat, the encroaching of a foreign power, unites them in a common cause. Armada develops character, flavour, and although Bellis travels to several locations, she does so in a way aboard the city-ship, and there's a sense of continuity.