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La Cité de Laiton by S.A. Chakraborty

12 reviews

reddeddy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Slavery, Xenophobia, Racism, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Grief, Misogyny, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Animal death, Alcohol, Bullying, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Genocide, Animal cruelty, Dysphoria, Racial slurs, and Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Child death, Outing, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Torture, Child abuse, Biphobia, Antisemitism, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Drug use, Sexual assault, Cultural appropriation, Body shaming, Islamophobia, Infertility, Physical abuse, and Rape

queerreaderchaos's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Racism, Animal death, Blood, Rape, Death, Medical content, Genocide, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Slavery, Hate crime, War, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Cancer and Religious bigotry

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Slavery, Body horror, Classism, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Colonisation, Gore, Racism, Torture, Alcohol, and Racial slurs

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Child abuse, Rape, and War

inez_hunter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Genocide, Gore, Sexism, Blood, Classism, Death, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Misogyny

boba_n_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

If you’re looking for something magical, beautiful, and intriguing… you’ve found it in The City of Brass. 

This gorgeous novel takes readers on a fantastical journey throughout the djinn world in the Middle East: Daevabad. Told through two perspectives, one insider and one outsider, you slowly learn more about the politics and racial tensions between the different tribes of djinn and the half-breed shafit. 

Tensions run high, and allegiances will be tested as both POVs learn to navigate the world of Daevabad. Everything is not as black and white as it seems. Who can they trust? And how can they tell what is right? 

You will absolutely fall in love with this world and the characters who inhabit it. I’m immediately picking up book two because I have to know what happens right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Racial slurs, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Grief, Trafficking, and War

Minor: Rape

corvusastrum's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.25

This review contains too many spoilers to flag them all, you have been warned.

I was on the fence throughout most of this book. I didn't love it, but I also didn't hate it. The ending absolutely changed that though and makes me think that this is a villain origin story, because both Nahri and especially Dara are horrible and I don't know in which universe I could/should like them.

I don't know what she sees in him. He's utterly psychotic, and has been a jerk from the very beginning. I don't care that they spent a month travelling together, or that he's oh so good looking. He tried to marry her off so she can produce offspring. He tried to kidnap her by threatening to kill her (only) friend and would have succeeded. He mercilessly killed over 20 soldiers in front of her eyes, and after all thag she STILL loves him. Woman. Does he have to ram the red flag into your f a c e?

Anyway, as said, most of this book was okay to me. Nothing much happened, but the writing was rather pleasant and I admittedly like the concept of the story, though I would have liked seeing a bit more of the other djinn tribes. A bit of a pet peeve of mine is all the sexism in this book. I understand it's realistic, I just have personal issue with it and it gives me a very sour taste reading. I also really like that this story takes place outside of the USA or Great Britain for once, it's very refreshing to get a glimpse into another culture. 

Sadly I won't be continuing this series, for as much as I like Ali, I don't want to put up with Nahri or Dara ever again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape

lighterthaneyre's review against another edition

I just really didn't enjoy the male character that is the main character's POV into the magic world. He kidnaps her and is hostile and threatening and she keeps thinking "gosh he's got guess I should escape now"

I only got 1 chapter of the prince POV character and. He's just naive to the point of stupidity and has huge racism blinders. I wasn't having a good time so I stopped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Blood, Violence, Slavery, Misogyny, and War

Minor: Sexual harassment

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, War, Slavery, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Colonisation, Child death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Trafficking, Torture, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Misogyny, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

laurareads87's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

The City of Brass has been on my TBR for way too long: it's been recommended to me many times by folks whose reading preferences I trust, but I just never got around to it until now.  I'm so glad I did -- I ended up buying the sequel before finishing.  This has everything I look for in a fantasy series: political intrigue and scheming, compelling magic, multi-POV storytelling, solid world-building, high stakes maneuvering, and characters who are all ethically ambiguous at best.  Definitely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Torture, Self harm, Slavery, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

bookishfaye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.75

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 I can feel in my bones that this series is going to be groundbreaking for me 

🍂 positives:
- I love all of the characters and how complex they are & the dynamics between them all!

Nahri is such a bad bitch, Ali is so intriguing & his dynamic with Nahri makes my heart go pitter patter, Ali’s dad Ghassen honestly gives me president snow vibes if he had like a shred of empathy?? & his intensity is so wild & his almost cat and mouse game with Nahri is everything, I NEED to know more about Dara he is such an intriguing character, & also Ali’s brother!!! Is queer!!!!????? We love to see it!!

- the world is so interesting & vivid & the magic system is so unbelievably cool & unique
- I love where the storyline is going & how this set up the next book is absolutely *chefs kiss*
- I love how easily digestible this writing style was

🍂 negatives:
- the beginning 1/3 of this book felt a tad info dumpy on Ali’s perspectives,

I really didn’t comprehend his entirely until he was with Nahri like halfway through the book.

I did really enjoy Nahri’s POV’s though!
- the pacing throughout the middle chunk of the book did feel quite slow at times & almost took me out of it here and there

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Violence, Colonisation, Classism, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, War, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Sexual violence