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...
City of Blades takes up five years after the Battle of Bulikov which took place in City of Stairs. General Turyin Mulaghesh is being forced out of early retirement. In order to collect her full pension, Prime Minister Shara Komayd will require Mulaghesh to finish out her tenure. She is dispat...
With City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett fully embraces the old adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Blades exemplifying all that was beloved about City of Stairs : the same espionage-like narrative, similar weaving of fantastical elements with straight ahead mystery, and philosophical overto...
This is great. Going back to read the first book (didn't know there was one til I was already into this one, but I understood most everything). Fantasy fans really need to check this out! I will review this better after reading City of Stairs (I think that is what the first book is). My copy is an...
It is not every day that I read a book that leaves me wondering so much about how the world exactly fits together and what parallels there are to our own world. Beware, this is by no means a bad thing. The worldbuilding was superb and thus left me completely invested into this mysterious continent t...
As much as I came to see City of Stairs, the first book of The Divine Cities, as a remarkable multi-genre crossover success, it took me a while to warm up to it. In fact, at one point I put the book down with no intention of finishing it. What a mistake that would have been. I’m glad I decided to gi...
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