City of Blades
The city of Voortyashtan was once the domain of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it’s little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to try to find a Saypuri secret agent who’s gone missing in the middle of a...
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The city of Voortyashtan was once the domain of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it’s little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to try to find a Saypuri secret agent who’s gone missing in the middle of a mission, but the city of war offers countless threats: not only have the ghosts of he
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780553419719 (0553419714)
ASIN: 553419714
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Series: The Divine Cities (#2)
So this is an older female hero who has retired from the army to find that she still has some service owing, so she's sent to a small outpost where their god is dead. like most of the gods in this world, but godish stuff seems to be happening. There's also a substance that appears to conduct electr...
Obwohl „City of Stairs“, der Auftakt der Trilogie „The Divine Cities“, ein bemerkenswerter Erfolg für den Autor Robert Jackson Bennett war, hatte er ursprünglich nicht vor, diese grandiose Geschichte fortzuführen. Er scheute sich davor, herauszufinden, was in seinem hochkomplexen Universum als nächs...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.This was one impressive read! I read the first book in this series, City of Stairs, a few months ago and really enjoyed it so I was really excited to finally get around to reading the second book in the series, City of Blades. A lot of t...
Taking place some five years after the events of 'City of Stairs', affairs on the continent have not improved, and Shara's tenure as Prime Minister has not been the success that she had hoped for.General Mulaghesh is pulled from a self-imposed retirement to investigate the disappearance of an agent ...
I’m still debating whether to give this book 3.5 or 4 stars, so the rating may change. This world is definitely a fantasy one, but its inhabitants may live with more technology than you see with a typical sword-and-sorcery fantasy. I also wouldn't call it urban fantasy. It’s an industrial settin...