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Really good, and I can see why Twitter and CBR love it, but not quite for me

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

August 17, 2021 by Bothari43 2 Comments

I read Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy last year and loooooooved it, so when The City We Became showed up as the choice for a meetup group book club, I was excited enough to plan to attend and not just lurk. While I did like it, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did Broken Earth. When a city has enough people, history, culture, and personality, it can come alive, with a person becoming the living avatar of that city. New York City has hit […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: does this count as urban fantasy?, great cities trilogy, multiverse, n.k. jemisin, NYC, parallel universes, personifications of places

Bothari43's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: does this count as urban fantasy?, great cities trilogy, multiverse, n.k. jemisin, NYC, parallel universes, personifications of places ·
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