If there is one complaint that I have is that I’m not entirely convinced that the overall plot arc is going to be completely unlike anything I’ve ever read, but I had such a good time that I’m not sure if I care.
It’s compulsively readable and the world-building isn’t as dense as some adult fantasy novels that I have read. I actually think this is a great bridge novel for those looking to go from young adult fantasy to adult fantasy. This book is slotted into the adult fantasy section of my local library and I assume that it is more because of the topics discussed and the violence than because of the characters’ ages. Nahri is about twenty and Ali is about eighteen. Something that I didn’t know when I started this book was how old the main characters were going to be. Men who are prickly to the outside world, but maybe cinnamon rolls to the ones they love. Not in like a domestic abuse sort of way, but a reluctant to fall in love kind of way. “Do yo u like your men tall, dark, and hostile?” Something else that it made me realize is that I do in fact have a type in fantasy books: It’s not one of those worlds that I would necessarily want to visit or live in, but it sure excited my imagination and thirst for adventure. I put aside everything else to keep reading about the political machinations, magic, and betrayals of the djinn. It was so well-written and engaging that I read it predominantly in two sittings over two days. I was absolutely entranced from it’s start on the streets of 18th century Cairo all the way to the Daeva’s city of brass, behind a river and beyond a veil. I’ve had my sights set on this trilogy since it start in 2017 and boy am I glad that I finally picked it up. However, since I’m cleaning up a lot of my uncompleted series this year, it gives me leave to start new ones.
It may sound strange that I didn’t want to immediately jump into a book that everyone says is amazing, but that is how heartbreak due to unrealistic expectations happens. I’ve been putting off reading this series for awhile because I keep hearing nothing but amazing things about it. This is one of my few, non-reread, five star books for the first half of 2021. Here, amid members of the six djinn tribes, she learns that even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. The warrior and his story pull her across the hot, windswept sands to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. But when Nahri accidentally summons a sly and darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her sides, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she’d left behind in childhood stories is real. As a con woman of unsurpassed talent on the streets of 18th century Cairo she has amassed some power, but it’s not the same as magic. Often the mightiest things ha ve the humblest beginnings.”
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