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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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Dec 08, 2021 Maria V. Snyder rated it it was amazing

I really loved this book. It was just very different from the other fantasy novels I've been reading. I liked that it was set in an alternate Middle East and it's started out in Cairo. I'd just been there so it was fun to know what they city looks like. I appreciated how the magic system has djinn and infrits and I also appreciated the glossary in the back of the book. ...more

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Oct 09, 2018 Melike rated it really liked it

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I love myself a good fantasy book and when it is a Middle Eastern one it is even better. I fell in love with the City of Brass from its first pages. The world building is intricate and detailed, I was transported to these beautiful, mysterious lands with Nahri, our bad ass heroine. Chakraborty knows her history, she has done the necessary work to be able to give to us such a jewel of a novel. I thank her for that. I cannot wait for Book 2, I already preordered a signed copy.

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Feb 12, 2018 Tien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The City of Brass is a surprisingly easy and fast read! On the other hand, I’ve just finished Hero at the Fall (Rebels of the Sand #3) which has similar sort of setting (desert) & theme (Arabian, djinns, magic, etc) so I feel that I didn’t have to readjust myself to a completely new world (which would usually take me the first hour or so) and so, a very quick read despite the hefty 544 pages.

The main character, Nahri, is a gutsy girl trying to survive in the dirty smelly and tough streets of Cai ...more

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Mar 04, 2021 Susan rated it it was amazing

An amazing beginning to this trilogy. I was hooked the second they brought in the flying carpet. I have this fascination for all books related to Egyptian tales. I love the magic system in this book, the politics I thought would bore me but actually didn't, and I liked that there was some romance (I wish there had been more but I love the little we got)

Nahri's character was one I liked a lot. She was alone and making a living. She was a thief for the most part but she was smart and cunning and i ...more

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May 13, 2021 Dareth McKenna rated it it was amazing

This was an interesting world with believable likeable characters. Even some of the enemies were fun to read about. It’s an interesting magic system and world, I liked the gritty life that we see Nahri starting out the story in, and how she’s made herself a place within the city and has a plan and has dreams and a plan for getting there. I am less comfortable with how helpless and ignorant she is made out to be after their journey... I feel like there were a lot things she could’ve done and ques ...more

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