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The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)

S.A. Chakraborty

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

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Dec 2017: The City of Brass

December BoTM: "The City of Brass" by S. A. Chakraborty
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Feb 16, 2021 ✨ jami ✨ added it · review of another edition

Shelves: series, adult, 2021-reads, fantasy, historical-fiction

dnf @ 52%. I wanted to love this series so bad but I've tried to read this book TWICE and I just cannot get into it, I'm finding it so slow and tedious to get through. I really liked the setting and the mythology but I just didn't care about the characters or politics. I'm sad I wanted this to be a new favourite. ...more

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May 25, 2018 Amanda - FictionallyAmanda rated it it was amazing

This was one of the easiest 5 star ratings I have ever given. This world was so well written I actually felt like I was apart of the story. I have completely fallen in love with these characters and I just want them all to be okay. Honestly, this is one of the best fantasy novels I have read and it is mind blowing that it's a debut novel. I just want more from this author, and this world, and these characters. I don't know how to review this novel without just gushing about it, but if you haven' ...more

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Jan 13, 2018 Nina Carboni rated it liked it

I’m so sick of ridiculous cliffhanger endings.

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May 21, 2020 Addie Dehart rated it it was amazing

Wow! What a rich, twisty, turny fantasy. I'm excited to move on to Kingdom of Copper! ...more

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Jan 23, 2019 Adrianne rated it it was amazing

Here’s a bit of a summary. Our main character Nahri is a thief in 18th century Cairo, doing palm readings and “fake” healing to make a living. One day though, something a little…epic happens during one of her cons and our little Nahri summons a djinn warrior, let’s call him tall dark and handsome. Now she’s thrown into this newfound world, a world, that’s she’s told by tall dark and handsome, that’s full of magic and djinn. This tall dark djinn tells her of an amazing, beautiful city known as Da Here’s a bit of a summary. Our main character Nahri is a thief in 18th century Cairo, doing palm readings and “fake” healing to make a living. One day though, something a little…epic happens during one of her cons and our little Nahri summons a djinn warrior, let’s call him tall dark and handsome. Now she’s thrown into this newfound world, a world, that’s she’s told by tall dark and handsome, that’s full of magic and djinn. This tall dark djinn tells her of an amazing, beautiful city known as Daevabad where he believes Nahri must go because she may find out about her mysterious past.

The rest is all court intrigue and attractive djinn warriors using magic and battling ifrit.

What this summary doesn’t mention is that this story is told from two different perspective. Yes, we follow Nahri as her world is turned upside down and she travels across the desert with Dara (aka tall, dark, and handsome) to Daevabad, but we also follow the second son of the ruler of Daevabad, Ali. Now, the lovely Soneela Nankani narrates both Ali and Nahri and I. Love. Her. She adds so much sass to both of these characters. Her narration is one of my favorites in any audiobook I’ve listen to recently. She is very good at keeping the multitude of characters we meet throughout the story, and the way she’s able to sound awed by the magical world the characters dive into is beautiful.

NOW, let me just say, I’m a mythology junkie. I always passed that portion of my history classes with flying colors because it just fascinates me. Egyptian mythology is one of my favorite mythologies to learn about and this book does it in such a way that, in a way brings it to life. The author, from my understanding is a historian of ancient Egypt and she used a lot of real events/places/people to build the world around these characters. Yes, Daevabad is a made up place, but the author keeps everything very…era appropriate. There’s no futuristic technology, no utopian society, nothing of that sort. It was really refreshing reading about a part of the world and era written by someone who knows so much about it.

Overall this is one of my favorite audiobooks of the year just because of the material and the narrator. I’m kind of easy to please when it comes to audiobooks because I typically only listen to them when I’m driving or working out. I definitely recommend this one to people who are looking for something historical fiction with…a fantasy twist, definitely check this one out! I can only imagine what the sequel will bring 🙂

Have you guys read this one? Or listened to it? What did you think?? ...more

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