![]() Nowhere was this more obvious then at the end of The City of Brass when Dara basically kidnaps Nahri and Ali in a poor attempt at getting Nahri out of an arranged marriage. At the same time, it doesn’t always embrace these tropes in ways you might expect. Yes, the novel embraces plenty of fantasy tropes: the orphan who discovers she’s basically a lost princess (Nahri), the handsome immortal warrior (Dara), and the young, idealistic princes (Ali). One of the things I enjoyed the most about The City of Brass is how it turns the tables on your expectations. However, there are big spoilers for The City of Brass. This review has no spoilers for The Kingdom of Copper. and one that seeks the aid of a warrior trapped between worlds, torn between a violent duty he can never escape and a peace he fears he will never deserve. It’s a force that would bring a storm of fire straight to the city’s gates. But in doing so, he threatens to unearth a terrible secret his family has long kept buried.Īnd as a new century approaches and the djinn gather within Daevabad’s towering brass walls for celebrations, a threat brews unseen in the desolate north. Hunted by assassins, adrift on the unforgiving copper sands of his ancestral land, he is forced to rely on the frightening abilities the marid-the unpredictable water spirits-have gifted him. Meanwhile, Ali has been exiled for daring to defy his father. But even as she embraces her heritage and the power it holds, she knows she’s been trapped in a gilded cage, watched by a king who rules from the throne that once belonged to her family-and one misstep will doom her tribe. Now, with Daevabad entrenched in the dark aftermath of a devastating battle, Nahri must forge a new path for herself. Whisked from her home in Cairo, she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabad-and quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there. Nahri’s life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. The first one is The Kingdom of Copper, the follow up to The City of Brass. As a result, I will be reading and reviewing three super-sized sequels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why I Chose This: For 2019, I set a resolution that tackles two of my weak points as a reader: my tendency to not finish series, and my fear of long books. ![]()
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