Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where you chose a random book from your Goodreads TBR and show it off. This meme is hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog.
This week, I’m spotlighting a book that I’ve had on my Goodreads TBR since 2018! It released in 2017, and I’ve heard it’s a fantastic start to the trilogy. I think I even have a copy of the book. I just need to make some time to read it. lol
About the Book:
Title: The City of Brass
Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Series: The Daevabad Trilogy
Page Length: 532
Publication Date: Nov. 14, 2017
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Synopsis: Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th 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.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new 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 hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. 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 be careful what you wish for…
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Have you read The City of Brass? What’s on your Goodreads TBR? Comment below!
I read this last year and it was an okay read for me, the last third being the part of the book that really did sell itself because it took a good 200+ pages for me to get into it. As much as I’ve heard people say it is the sequels that make this series amazing, I’m not sure I’m that invested in reading them anymore.
Good to know. Now if I read it, I’ll be prepared for a slower start. Thanks, Emma! 🙂