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Sep 18, 2018bwrogers rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I'll admit that I picked this up off the shelves purely on a whim. I had less than zero expectations, as so much fantasy is unfortunately just the same genre elements repeated with different goofy names. City of Brass couldn't have surprised me any more. Chakraborty's prose is rich and her characters have developed, unique perspectives and narrative arcs. Her myth-making is also excellent; it's incredibly rare to find a complex religious system in a fantasy novel that actually feels like a religion: discordant, contested, deeply felt. Thank goodness there's a sequel on the way as this incredibly setting cries out for more stories and Chakraborty seems sure to provide them.