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

S.A. Chakraborty

Start date: June 1, 2023

Finish date: June 30, 2023

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Oct 12, 2021 Amanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, favorites, young-adult, lgbt, fiction, fantasy, hugo-related, retelling, poc-main-character, magical-creatures

Fall 2021 (October);
~ Library Book Club

I rather liked this book, which is unexpected since Laura gave me a rave review of the whole series as being something she'd read in a spree all at once in 2020 (among a handful of other recs I've already been knocking down).

I loved the sweeping history, and had no troubles keeping track of the races, families, or the political interplay between specific characters and larger political swaths of larger grouped people. I was most interested in any and all ...more

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Jun 17, 2020 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, 50-poc

Gripping and complex story about people caught up in prejudice and culture, everyone trying to do right but grappling with compromises that betray each other. I found Nahri more sympathetic than Ali, but both had good stories.

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