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A review by peterkeep
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
5.0
Books are so often judged by their endings. I do it. I can slog through a book, but if the last 50 pages are exciting, then that's what I dwell on. That's probably not fair, especially in the other direction.
I loved the first 400 pages of the book. Absolutely amazing. The last 80 or so were still good, but it wasn't like it was the most amazing ending action sequence ever written. It was good. Not quite as enjoyable for me as the end of City of Stairs, but that doesn't mean that this wasn't a great book. Because it really was.
I really liked the focus on some of the newer characters - I thought moving away from the original cast of characters would be hard, but it really wasn't. I was pretty immediately invested in the new people, or the familiar ones with different roles. They fit really well into the feel of the series, but everything was still new and exciting. And that's a big part of this series: feel and uniqueness. The world is still as cool and unique and special as it was in City of Stairs, but there are some really great new wrinkles added, details filled in, and backstories told. Robert Jackson Bennett really does a great job of writing intriguing and interesting stories, and I've had so much fun with these books.
I loved the first 400 pages of the book. Absolutely amazing. The last 80 or so were still good, but it wasn't like it was the most amazing ending action sequence ever written. It was good. Not quite as enjoyable for me as the end of City of Stairs, but that doesn't mean that this wasn't a great book. Because it really was.
I really liked the focus on some of the newer characters - I thought moving away from the original cast of characters would be hard, but it really wasn't. I was pretty immediately invested in the new people, or the familiar ones with different roles. They fit really well into the feel of the series, but everything was still new and exciting. And that's a big part of this series: feel and uniqueness. The world is still as cool and unique and special as it was in City of Stairs, but there are some really great new wrinkles added, details filled in, and backstories told. Robert Jackson Bennett really does a great job of writing intriguing and interesting stories, and I've had so much fun with these books.