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The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

21 reviews

imds's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Outing, War, and Classism

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

jess_yasmyn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Violence, and War

laurenkimoto's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I do love some political intrigue fantasy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Slavery, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

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

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

dealingwithdragons's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

binayocheved's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

we do love djinni & political intrigue & morally complex characters & mutual pining & zealous young idealists & con artists & ~lies~. 

all of that. 
we love it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

emmjay's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

A slower start to the most intense political intrigue. A main female character of color who is real with flaws but also a badass. No weird sexualization of children or constant threats of/depictions of sexual violence that is present in so many other high fantasy stories. I thought about this book when I wasn’t reading it. I already bought the whole trilogy. Heavy on the world building (not always a big draw for me but it was well done and impressive), intense, very dark and gruesome at points, diverse, interesting and complicated characters, elaborate. The first words out of my mouth when I rushed through the last page were “so f***ing good.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, and Trafficking