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ninglulu's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.5
rachelini's review against another edition
4.0
So this book was the culmination of four trilogies, all leading to this point. I think the author did the smart thing by just including a few characters from each series, rather than trying to bring in everyone. There was a lot going on, but the variety of storylines meant there were some breathing moments among the chaos. Looking forward to what comes next from this author.
r_loretta's review against another edition
5.0
I don't even know how to feel after finishing this book. I'm still digesting everything but I loved it so much. I loved seeing Dayne, Jerinne, Veranix, Asti, Verci, Minox, and Satrine working together.
This book is giving me a book hangover. I want to pick up something else but nothing is right.
This book is giving me a book hangover. I want to pick up something else but nothing is right.
roguebelle's review
5.0
Maresca has achieved something truly magnificent here. Tying together disparate threads of a multi-POV story is a challenge even in a single novel. To pull together the threads of four series, spanning twelve novels, is an absolutely masterful act.
In PEOPLE OF THE CITY, Maresca delivers on so many promises made across the past several years. Not everything ties up with a neat bow -- life and Maradaine go on, after all -- but this story satisfyingly answers many questions and rounds off an arc. The seven prime figures from all four series -- Veranix, the Rynax brothers, Minox and Satrine, Dayne and Jerinne -- all get sterling moments of heroism, and the chapters mid-book where the reader sees them moving towards each other in an inexorable collision course are so utterly thrilling. If you don't hear the Avengers theme playing in your head at least once during the Big Battle, I don't know what's wrong with you.
I have thrown the Maradaine series at so many people. If you love fantasy that takes place in fully-imagined worlds, so vital and vivid that you feel you could navigate your way through the streets, then you simply must read this saga. Maresca's city is filled with wonderful, complex characters, and he examines so many questions of right and wrong, justice and mercy, the reins of power and how people fight to control them. PEOPLE OF THE CITY does all this and more, celebrating the spirit that causes a hero to rise up and defend the place and people that they love.
In PEOPLE OF THE CITY, Maresca delivers on so many promises made across the past several years. Not everything ties up with a neat bow -- life and Maradaine go on, after all -- but this story satisfyingly answers many questions and rounds off an arc. The seven prime figures from all four series -- Veranix, the Rynax brothers, Minox and Satrine, Dayne and Jerinne -- all get sterling moments of heroism, and the chapters mid-book where the reader sees them moving towards each other in an inexorable collision course are so utterly thrilling. If you don't hear the Avengers theme playing in your head at least once during the Big Battle, I don't know what's wrong with you.
I have thrown the Maradaine series at so many people. If you love fantasy that takes place in fully-imagined worlds, so vital and vivid that you feel you could navigate your way through the streets, then you simply must read this saga. Maresca's city is filled with wonderful, complex characters, and he examines so many questions of right and wrong, justice and mercy, the reins of power and how people fight to control them. PEOPLE OF THE CITY does all this and more, celebrating the spirit that causes a hero to rise up and defend the place and people that they love.
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