A review by jordandotcom
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

5.0

this series is one that devastates, haunts. it’s one that has a slow and delicious pace, and even when my reread seems to be a constant pick-up-put-down cycle, it still remains my favorite. it is a meditation on colonialism, race, history, war, violence, urban planning, gods. it’s a series that has serious staying power, and has not left my brain since the first time I read it nearly four years ago. it is a bittersweet tragedy to read, as there are few good endings not hard-fought and devastating. and this is especially embodied in vohannes, whose arc of tragedy ended in defiant liberation, even if in a way that makes me cry. and vohannes, mulaghesh, sigrud, and shara are easily some of my favorite fantasy characters of all time. 
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