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The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

161 reviews

clarehiyama's review against another edition

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

peachmoni'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: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

reddeddy's review against another edition

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

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

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

butkerfingers's review against another edition

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, Slavery, Torture, and War

mmelibertine's review against another edition

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

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: Slavery and Violence

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, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

magdalenahai's review against another edition

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: Torture, Violence, and War

Minor: Rape

bookswithcuppatea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I devoured this book, reluctant to put it down! Rich and deep world building, complex characters, and unusual fantastic beings, this was an excellent opening to a series. I look forward to reading more, to seeing Nahri continue to grow, to see what happens next.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Classism