Divine Cities City of Blades, Book 2, (Paperback)

from JJbooklvr

Catching up on a book I missed from earlier this year. This is set several years after the events in City of Stairs and is set in a different part of Mr. Bennett's fantasy world. This time General Turyin Mulaghesh takes center stage when she is sent to Voortyashtan to discover what happened to a ...

from Narilka

Second verse same as the first? In many ways City of Blades, the second book in Robert Jackson Bennet's Divine Cities trilogy, feels a lot like City of Stairs. Stylistically both books are ultra slow burns where the author takes his time setting the stage while introducing us to an all new set of...

from quondame

The author states that a whole novel was removed from the center of this. It should have been a novel and ½ at least. There is some great stuff here and another ghastly entanglement with the divine, or at least the ghost of the devine, a high rather merciless body count, as the survivors would ha...

from meandmybooks

It took until halfway through before the book really gripped me, but that may have been a function of real life distractions. On the other hand, it is at about the halfway mark that Sigrud comes on the scene and his daughter's character becomes interesting and our main character, Mulagdhesh, can ...

from bezoar44

The second book set in Bennett's world of the Saypuri and Voortyashtani, but the first I've read. The setting turns urban fantasy on its head; it is gritty and dark, but this is a world where a fantasy empire was undone a century ago by the death of its gods, and now the world has embarked on an ...