Reviews tagging 'Classism'

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

36 reviews

bookishfaye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.75

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 I can feel in my bones that this series is going to be groundbreaking for me 

🍂 positives:
- I love all of the characters and how complex they are & the dynamics between them all!

Nahri is such a bad bitch, Ali is so intriguing & his dynamic with Nahri makes my heart go pitter patter, Ali’s dad Ghassen honestly gives me president snow vibes if he had like a shred of empathy?? & his intensity is so wild & his almost cat and mouse game with Nahri is everything, I NEED to know more about Dara he is such an intriguing character, & also Ali’s brother!!! Is queer!!!!????? We love to see it!!

- the world is so interesting & vivid & the magic system is so unbelievably cool & unique
- I love where the storyline is going & how this set up the next book is absolutely *chefs kiss*
- I love how easily digestible this writing style was

🍂 negatives:
- the beginning 1/3 of this book felt a tad info dumpy on Ali’s perspectives,

I really didn’t comprehend his entirely until he was with Nahri like halfway through the book.

I did really enjoy Nahri’s POV’s though!
- the pacing throughout the middle chunk of the book did feel quite slow at times & almost took me out of it here and there

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and War

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Genocide, Rape, and Slavery

isleoflinds's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Animal death, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual content, Torture, and Colonisation

macknificent's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

It's not a great book but there was some fun to be had.  Very much high fantasy with training wheels, especially entertaining if the reader is coming from a romance background. 

I was fine with only reading one of the books until I got to the very end, now I'll need to read the next entry in the trilogy. I'm not mad it's just a rather cliche trick to pull. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, War, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Religious bigotry

pvbobrien's review

adventurous mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Blood, and Classism

Minor: Rape, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

erynelle's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Classism