City of Brass

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S. A. Chakraborty: City of Brass (2018, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

544 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 29 de octubre de 2018 por HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-823942-8
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"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 …

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Although the premise is fascinating, the narrative gets bogged down in a rather arbitrary (and massively age-gapped) romance, as well as some extremely inconsistent characterization for the protagonist. One minute, she's a bold and daring street hustler, the next she's suddenly gullible and helpless, and the next she is inexplicably head-over-heals for a man she hardly knows.

I had really high hopes for this book, but was ultimately pretty disappointed. It feels like there is a really good book in here, but a few darlings needed to be killed (like that romance), and the characterizations needed to be cleaned up.

That said, the world building is pretty interesting, and it kept me reading to the end.

Review of 'City of Brass' on 'Goodreads'

A ver, me ha gustado, pero le cuesta arrancar como él solo. Intriga política, bien.
Personajes, bien también, aunque a lo mejor la segunda parte es más desequilibrada respecto a la primera. La construcción de mundos es muy interesante pero me da la sensación de que es muy punta del iceberg cuando hubiese preferido más profundización en algunos temas, como el mundo de los Daevas.
Muy probablemente lea el segundo porque tiene un final abierto no, lo siguiente.

A big story with a lot of humanity in its magical beings

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