![]() This novel looks at the politics of rulers, oppression of races and rebellion against the norm from every angle. I feel like I haven’t explained this well at all, but what I’m trying to say is that the world building is rich, the storyline beautifully weaved and crafted and the characters are so well-rounded that it’s difficult to describe in just two paragraphs. From funding a rebellion against the Daevas to building a friendship with the enemy, he navigates his life as the second son of the king and future Qaid, while battling with his own morality and that of his family. The second perspective is Ali – a prince, and a djinni, the inherited enemy of the Nahids and now rulers of their city, Daevabad. Told she is a legendary Nahid, a long-dead line of Daeva healers, Nahri is thrown into a world of magic, djinni, politics, and bloodshed which she never knew she was a part of. Nahri has grown up in a mortal world, unaware of the magic that runs through cities and lands not too distant from her own, but when she accidentally calls Dara, a Daeva warrior, to her in what she believes to be a fake healing ceremony, her life is naturally turned upside down. The first being Nahri, a con-artist with an affinity for healing who lives in Cairo. It is told in third-person from the perspectives of two characters. It is, without a doubt, my top read of 2018 so far and if it doesn’t make my list at the end of the year, I will eat the very pages of my ARC. Thank you for being the best buddy ever and I really enjoyed getting to know you through our mutual reading □ Thanks to Rian, I finally got around to this book after my January fantasy slump and I took part in my first ever buddy read. In flies saviour of the day, Rian, who I met and agreed to buddy read with through the group, Life & Lit. I was so happy that I, in my usual fashion, forgot to read it for months. HOWEVER, come November when my first ever Illumicrate box arrived, you can guess what lay inside. I spent a lot of time at YALC last summer hoping and praying I would manage to get my hands on a precious ARC. KEY WORDS: Middle-Eastern fantasy, djinni, incredible wordbuilding, best read of 2018 so far. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.Īfter all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for. ![]() ![]() That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. ![]() In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. 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. 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.īut 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. Certainly, she has power on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. ![]()
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