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L'impero di oro by S.A. Chakraborty

84 reviews

mice_are_nice's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Violence, War, Torture, and Blood

Moderate: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Slavery

Minor: Sexual content

saracat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Chakraborty continues to weave amazingly complex characters and stories in a way that feels so heart wrenchingly well. That characters and those around them go through so much. But is it any more than some have endured in our history? Or even still today? There is so much to learn from the examples of the characters in this story. Yes, they are fictional. And yes, maybe they are a bit optimistically naive. But I think our world could use more than a few more Bahri’s in the world. And more Dara’s and Ali’s once they have learned and grown by the end of the books. 
The roller coaster that readers are taken on in these books is so well worth it in seeing all the pieces fall together. And knowing the characters have given everything and continue to strive for better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Slavery, and Grief

Moderate: Classism, Murder, Suicide attempt, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Torture, Child death, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Rape, Religious bigotry, and Kidnapping

bookswithcuppatea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A remarkable conclusion to this trilogy!

I was stunned by events more than once by this delightfully complex story. A lot of loose threads from the previous two books were picked up again and explored further and woven together into a fascinating tapestry.

The world building in this series is complex and rich, the most thorough I've read in a very long time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Death of parent, War, Death, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

sas_lk's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

I'm fascinated by how Chakraborty is able to make you understand the characters so deeply, making you feel sorry and love for even the villains, because even though you might not agree, or their actions are not justifiable, you still understand where the pain comes from and why they believe what they are doing is right. 

This is a story about how love and belief can blind us, and even though this was obviously mostly a fictional world, I could relate it all too well to the reality of our world.

Very well done series and characters, it kept  me on my toes and I just kept praying everything would be okay when I couldn't think of a way out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Xenophobia, Death, War, Blood, Slavery, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death

devilavo96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Child death

dreadspawn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Slavery, Gore, Genocide, Violence, Death, Torture, Grief, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

kylosten's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Homophobia

dilibertorebecca's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I loved the arc of this final book in the larger daevabad narrative. I especially loved the descriptions of the

marid realm and the peris and all the other magical creatures

that had been legend in the two prior books. This part of the story is epic, there is so much movement and magic and there are times when I really thought how is she going to end this cleanly? My main critique is that Manizheh is a somewhat boring villain, vengeance for her tribe didn’t seem like enough of an alibi for

murdering a fifth of the city and using torture and murder and blood magic to hold onto power.

Otherwise, truly enjoyed being absorbed in this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Slavery

mmelibertine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, War, and Slavery

sofiadanielle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

AH. The end of the Daevabad Trilogy..

It’s been quite the ride, I will say. The length of the book was daunting, and took me a bit to get through, but god am I glad that I did. 

I do think this book was the best end to the trilogy, jam packed with twists and turns, action, heartache; never a dull moment, easily. I have so much love for some of the characters, that it hurts to say goodbye to them/this story. But, again, I am so content with this ending. 

S.A. Chakraborty, the person you are to write Middle Eastern fantasy… Chef’s kiss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Confinement