The City of Brass

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fantasy / Chakraborty, S. A.	4-week checkout	Due 05-16-2024

"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S.A. Chakraborty--an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by--palm readings, zars, healings--are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to question all she believes. For the warrior tells her an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling birds of prey are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass--a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In Daevabad, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. A young prince dreams of rebellion. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say to be careful what you wish for"-- Provided by publisher.

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A stunning read submitted by Nay7 on August 14, 2020, 6:37pm This book left me breathless. The world building was incredible.

Loved this book submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 20, 2022, 9:49pm I finished the last page and ordered the next book from the library. This was wonderful. There are a lot of names to keep track of, but Chakraborty creates a rich tapestry of characters, history, magic, and interactions that pulled me through the book, unwilling to put it down for longer than I had to to get life tasks done. It was apparent by the fact that Nahri and Dara took half the book to get to their travel destination that this would be the beginning of a much larger story, but it does wrap up this portion of the story sufficiently. I liked the balance of a believable patriarchal society, but women who use the power they have.

Fantasy Must-Read submitted by 17661 on July 12, 2022, 12:54pm I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob. Seriously, though. I can't believe this was only book one. Rarely do I finish a book in a series and think 'I need the next one right now'. But with this book, I wished I had the second book in my hands immediately after finishing. Can't wait for my heart to be broken even further by S.A. Chakraborty's genius.