Once that confusion cleared, I adored it, it actually became one of my favorite things about the story. Don’t get me wrong, I adore it and all but I had a hard time grasping it the first chapters with all the creatures/tribes/families introduced in the span of a few chapters, I was confused a bit and had trouble keeping up, but the author doesn’t fail in reminding us who these people are throughout the story, and there’s also a glossary (is that what it’s called?) at the end which helped a lot as well. I honestly loved the writing and how it complimented the story very well. The descriptions are vivid which makes it a lot easier to imagine the setting and understand how everything is and where everything goes. It’s also atmospheric and sets the tone and vibe of the world the story is set in before the world is even fully unveiled. The writing is good, like, really good, elegant while not too thick, which was needed considering how dense the worldbuilding is. It is such a brilliant, powerful story and nothing like expected, it was different but somehow better. I was in the most awful slump while fighting my way through it but I luckily had the good sense to sort that slump out before diving back in, and more seriously this time around. This book was a ride to say the least, a wild ride but a ride that took me forever and it’s not even the book’s fault. I received an eARC of this book from the publishers through Edelweiss in exchange of an honest reviewĬontent Warnings: Death, blood, violence, assault, passing mention of rape. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.Īfter all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics.
And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass–a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by-palm readings, zars, healings-are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.īut when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. Certainly, she has power on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. Chakraborty-an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and One Thousand and One Nights, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts Synopsis : Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S.
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