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“So you just live quietly with these powers? Haven’t you ever wondered why you have them? Suleiman’s eye . . . you could be overthrowing governments, and instead you steal from peasants!”

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1) by S.A. Chakraborty

July 25, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Yet another book I don’t want to review because I put off writing the review so long that I’ve forgotten details of the book and what I wanted to say about it, if I ever knew. Mostly I’m just mad I didn’t read this sooner, although now I don’t have to wait in between books if I don’t want to. (I don’t want to, but I can’t manage to fit the second book into my OCD color-coded TBR—don’t ask, it’s too complicated to explain—and also! […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, narfna, S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass, the daevabad trilogy

narfna's CBR14 Review No:112 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, narfna, S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass, the daevabad trilogy ·
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Got brass in pocket Got bottle I’m gonna use it Intention I feel inventive

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

December 13, 2021 by esme 1 Comment

Wow, that was a tremendous letdown. I really ate up the first, say, third, of the City of Brass, and then slowly watched the wheels come off. The premise is terrific. Nahri is a conwoman and healer living in Cairo and scraping by because of her skill at picking up languages and her remarkable healing (both herself and others) prowess. Little bits of backstory emerge in a fairly organic way: she is an orphan who grew up on the streets, she is ‘odd’ in some way […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Fiction, S.A. Chakraborty

esme's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Fiction, S.A. Chakraborty ·
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This book pulls the rug out from under your feet, but not necessarily in the best way

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

April 15, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

HMMM this book, this book. I had SO very many thoughts after reading it, and I definitely should have just pounded this out immediately after reading it because now I am onto book the next and already some of my biting insights have started to flutter away. I would say that for large portions of the the middle of this book, I was pretty certain that I wasn’t going to read on and would instead force one of my friends who had finished the series […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Daevabad, S.A. Chakraborty

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:64 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Daevabad, S.A. Chakraborty ·
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A fitting end to a wonderful trilogy

Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty

December 31, 2020 by Aquillia 1 Comment

Empire of Gold featured in my ‘Best Books of the Year’ blurb, so why haven’t I written a review yet? I’m not quite sure, but I do know that it’s not the malaise that sometimes comes with ‘average’ books. I have loved each entry in the Daevabad trilogy more than the next, and Empire of Gold was that gold standard (no pun intended)–a conclusion that manages to surprise and yet feel inevitable and right, one that hits a perfect thematic ending note. Chakraborty has built up […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Daevabad, empire of gold, S.A. Chakraborty

Aquillia's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Daevabad, empire of gold, S.A. Chakraborty ·
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Fun story, bad editing

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

February 9, 2019 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

3.5 stars. This book was a pretty slow to pick up pace, but by the end I was digging both the story and characters. Nahri, a con woman in 18th century Cairo, is used to scraping by and lying for survival. She tricks rich people into giving her money in exchange for palm readings and healings. It’s never meant to be taken seriously until she accidentally summons a djinn warrior. When questioned by the djinn, it comes out that she has some actual skill with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Fiction, S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

yesknopemaybe's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Fiction, S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass ·
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It’s complicated; romance, family, politics, whether one is dead or not, all of it is complicated

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

December 5, 2018 by Dome'Loki 2 Comments

This book suffered from next book-itis.  I started reading it but got distracted by wanting to read other books when I realized that two more bingo squares would give me a second bingo (Between the Bridge and the River and Eleanor and Park).  I half-heartedly kept reading City of Brass while waiting to get to my main city library where I could pick up both books.  At the time of stopping reading, I was feeling so so about the City of Brass.  I was having trouble keeping track of the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, djinn, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction, first book from author, magic, S.A. Chakraborty

Dome'Loki's CBR10 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, djinn, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction, first book from author, magic, S.A. Chakraborty ·
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