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The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

152 reviews

ripxw's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, War, Violence, and Genocide

clarehiyama's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I really enjoyed this world! Boy, are the characters FLAWED, but I loved a lot of them anyway. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, War, Torture, Blood, Body horror, and Violence

peachani's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Body horror, Child death, Colonisation, Animal death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Grief, Abandonment, Ableism, Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Confinement, and Racial slurs

reddeddy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Slavery, Xenophobia, Racism, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Grief, Misogyny, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Animal death, Alcohol, Bullying, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Genocide, Animal cruelty, Dysphoria, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Child death, Outing, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Torture, Child abuse, Biphobia, Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Drug use, Sexual assault, Cultural appropriation, Body shaming, Islamophobia, Infertility, Physical abuse, and Rape

butkerfingers's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: War

Minor: Rape

lyricallit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

3.5

I wish I'd known there are 2 POV streams here, Nahri & Ali. The first time we switched to Ali I was confused and remained uninterested for awhile 😆 But it picked up. I enjoyed reading a fantasy with non-Western roots! I will probably get the next books to see where it goes. (I do hope the pacing picks up a tad in the next book)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape, War, Torture, and Slavery

mmelibertine's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I could fix him. Probably. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and War

Minor: Rape

sofiadanielle's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Albeit, a slow start, but the story definitely picks up the pace 30% in. As always, Chakraborty tells Middle Eastern mythology/fantasy in a wonderful way. There’s plenty of world building, which may get difficult to navigate, especially if aspects of Middle Eastern folklore is unfamiliar to you. Still, it is all the more enthralling to get introduced and be familiarized with these aspects! 

Very easily want to read the rest of the series, and am definitely wanting to know what happens next for the characters. I’m hooked, and can’t wait to explore more of the world of Daevabad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Slavery

juliana_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I loved this. It does start slow, but once Dara and Nahri were on their way I was hooked. So much fantasy is just repackaged medieval Europe, so this held my attention for nearly six hundred pages. I read it on my Kobo to look up words and also had a hard copy to easily reference the map and glossary. It was worth the effort to fully understand this world. 

My only issues:

I don’t mind a romantic subplot, but the one between Dara and Nahri seemed abrupt and just based on lust. I would have liked to see it unfurl slowly. He’s also…a millennium older than her. In addition, I felt that dropping pieces of Daeva lore through both Ali and Nahri’s perspectives made it difficult to follow or figure out what was true and what was manipulation. I needed like a blurb or a “once upon a time” at the beginning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racism, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Blood

Minor: Sexual violence and Rape

magdalenahai's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

Väkivaltaa oli paljon ja kirjan alku oli niin taistelupainotteinen, että se melkein sai minut luovuttamaan. Pidin siitä, että asiat vedettiin riittävän överiksi djinnien maailmassa, taikuudesta otettiin kaikki irti. Maailma oli muutenkin rikas ja syvä, monella konfliktilla oli alku historiassa. Päähenkilöissä riitti myös sävyjä, kukaan ei ollut mustavalkoinen. Alin, Daran ja Nahrin välille kehittyvä kolmiodraamasta en niin välittänyt enkä siitä että miehet käyttäytyivät Nahria puolustaakseen matalalla kynnyksellä hyvin aggressiivisesti. Uskonnot olivat keskeisemmässä roolissa kuin fantasiakirjoissa keskimäärin. Kirjan loppu jäi hyvinkin avoimeen tilanteeseen, jossa päähenkilöt ovat kaikki tyynni vaarassa.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Torture

Minor: Rape