City of Stairs (2014)
Robert Jackson Bennett
It is worth reading the first book of Bennett’s Divine Cities
Trilogy, City of Stairs, for the character Sigrud. He is the “assistant” for our heroine, Shara Komayd,
a Saypuri diplomat / spy who uncovers a political and supernatural plot
in the continental capital of Bulikov.
The former home to a ragtag group of divinities who ruled most of this
world in a capricious and ruthless manner.
Some unhinged people want to bring these godlike creatures back and
Shara with the help of “Norse-like” Sigrud work to uncover and stifle this
plot. Shara and Sigrud have personal
histories that we begin to see throughout the book that are as fascinating as
the main plot. Sigrud’s fight with the
supernatural river-monster is epic. Like
Mona Bright in American Elsewhere Bennett draws terrific characters that are
consistent in their actions in ways that are at first unexpected but upon
reflection make perfect sense.
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