City of Blades (2015) Robert Jackson Bennett
This story
begins five years after the action in City of Stairs. Shara
Komayd plays only a small, distant role in the book. Sigruid plays a significant, if somewhat
unsatisfying role. We are introduced to
his daughter. The lead character in City of Blades is General Turyin Mulaghesh.
The action takes place in the continental city of Voortyashthan. While a harbor is being built in the city to
increase trade a new ore is found with remarkable – if not miraculous –
properties. Here we go again… Bennett does much more than concoct a tale
about long gone Gods who still have an effect on the present. He brings a complex character like Mulaghesh
alive through her back story and the choices she makes throughout the
plot. She is truly a much more
interesting character then one would have thought from City of Stairs.
I found it interesting that the
figure of the giant monstrous “mother” again echoes so similar to that seen in
American Elsewhere. Bennett must have
some sort of mother concept. Sigruid is
apparently featured in the City of Miracles climax which I am
looking forward to. This book leaves him
on the run.
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