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#THE CITY OF BRASS TRILOGY SERIES#
I’m 100% positive if this series gets the same amount of attention and love and treatment GAME OF THRONES was given, it’ll garner much more acclaims than the latter one. The ifrits, the Marid, the peri, even the fearsome Karkadann will give the white walkers and the kraken a run for their money.
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The Islamic supernatural creatures are also mind blowing. I’m just in awe of the expanse of her researching skills, to the point she even shared some real medieval dishes and costumes. Then I’m persuaded to root for Nahri and her fire worshipping ancestors.Īnd the vast world building! My God!! The author has done some serious research for this book. One moment I’m rooting for Ali and his justified prejudices against the fire worshipping djinns. I’ve never hopped between rooting for characters to characters like this. This is an adult fantasy and therefore, you’ll find more shades of grey characters and themes than in young adult fiction. The other a big brother who will do anything to protect his impulsive and innocent minded little brother from dirty politics, but will also throw him under the bus if he threatens his life. One a father who loves his children very much, but will do anything to save his position. King Ghassan al-Qahtani and Crown Prince Muntadhir al-Qahtani, Ali’s father and older brother, are also shades of grey. But he also bores deep prejudice against the fire worshipping djinns, aka Nahri’s tribe and ancestors. He also does lots of questionable things in the end of the book.Īlizayd is a seemingly cinnamon roll softie. Nahri was a thief and conwoman who proudly and expertly stole from others in the eighteenth century Cairo to survive.ĭara is an ancient warrior who, during his time, had butchered an entire village of mostly shafit population. Everyone has done something not right in the eye of the society then and now. Other than that, nobody is pure and good. Perhaps some shafit children we come across briefly. To be honest, not one character is an innocent, good one.
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His family is also the one who overthrew Nahri’s family from the ruling position, thus an enemy of Nahri as well. We find him caught between family loyalty and his anger at the discrimination the shafits in the city face. The other narrator is Prince Alizayd al-Qahtani, second-in-line to the throne of Daevabad. To save her life, the warrior, Dara, takes her to the djinn city of Daevabad, Nahri’s ancestral homeland. The story begins when an eighteenth century Egyptian con artist, Nahri, accidentally summons an ancient djinn warrior and learns she is a shafit, the unlawful offspring from a human and djinn relation, as well as the last member of a family who’s sworn enemies are the ifrits (the monstrous and violent djinns who did not submit to Suleiman the prophet). Though there is no harem scheming like you’ll find in Turkish historical drama, MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, you’ll find plenty of scheming and plotting and fighting and threatening in here.
#THE CITY OF BRASS TRILOGY FULL#
We get two narrators, yet these two are enough to show us the vast expanse of the djinn politics and how intricate and full of schemes it is. You cannot root for one character without rooting for the one opposing them.
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I’ve never been torn asunder by a fantasy book as this one. If you’re a fan of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES for its djinn magic and out-of-this-world stakes and GAME OF THRONES for its political feuds and intrigues, accustomed to rooting for grey moral characters, this book is the one for you!! It is just pure glorious and wonderful and splendid and spellbinding and captivating and just…so so magical! If you’re looking for a book to escape into, this is the one for you!! I’ve been putting this book off for so long and I sorely regret not reading it earlier.