City of Blades

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Robert Jackson Bennett: City of Blades (AudiobookFormat, 2016, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing)

audio cd, 1 pages

Published March 15, 2016 by Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing.

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978-1-6644-3726-5
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5 stars (2 reviews)

3 editions

Quite excellent for a middle book

4 stars

City of Stairs was one of the best books I have read this year, and so I had high hopes for the sequel. I was not disappointed, even though we got a protagonist switch. Set five years after City of Stairs, Shara Komayd is now the prime minister of her country, and too busy to investigate issues on the continent. Instead, she sends General Turyin Mulaghesh, former polis governor of Bulikov, now in grand retirement. She's sent to Voortyashtan to investigate the case of a missing Saypuri. Turns out bad divine things are happening, and the General gets fully swept up in all of this. We meet Sigrun again, and his estranged daughter Signe, who is in charge of building a trade harbor.

A delight to read, always exciting to follow the plot along, and its only shortcoming probably that Mulaghesh is just not as entertaining as Shara was. The …

Review of 'City of Blades' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This is the sequel to [b:City of Stairs|20174424|City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)|Robert Jackson Bennett|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394545220s/20174424.jpg|28030792] and I liked this one at least as much, maybe more.

I have a bunch of books out from the library that I should have read sooner because they are due back earlier. But I once I started this one, I just had to keep going.

Technically, this is fantasy, but the magical part is so real and consistent that it is practically science fiction.

I think what really hooked me were the compelling characters. The protagonist in City of Blades was a minor character in City of Stairs. A highly competent general with a traumatic past that she needs to redeem.

It looks like there will be a third volume, [b:City of Miracles|28784121|City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)|Robert Jackson Bennett|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|48992784] and I am looking forward to it. Even though there is not …