So when we picked it for The Name of the Book Club’s August book, I was keen on finally sitting down and reading this hyped book – especially after hearing it has been optioned for Netflix. Having had The City of Brass on my radar ever since it’s release, I’ve attempted to read it previously on audiobook with no success. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.Īfter all, there is a reason they say to be careful what you wish for. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. In Daevabad, within gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. For the warrior tells her an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling birds of prey are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass-a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.

But she knows better than anyone that the trades 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.īut 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.

Certainly, she has power on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent.

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. Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. Published by Harper Voyager on July 3rd 2018Īmazon | Book Depository | Angus & Robertson | Booktopia

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