A review by karolinatx
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett

4.0

Thanks goes to Netgalley for the advance copy!

A great addition to The Divine Cities series. Strong plotting, world-building, and character development. Docking a star for:

a) obvious conclusions that characters take an unrealistically long time to cotton to

Spoiler

b) what seems to be a glaring mistake in the author's own lore. If Taty is one of the Divine orphans who never age and just keep getting adopted over and over

Then one day people started getting suspicious. They started wondering, when was this child going to grow up? When was this child going to become an adult? Why does this child stay adolescent? Why was this child still here? And when people started asking these questions and getting suspicious, then Jukov's miracle took care of you.

then how did Sigrud see her as a young child in [b:City of Blades|23909755|City of Blades (The Divine Cities, #2)|Robert Jackson Bennett|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1426255519s/23909755.jpg|43516764]?

Shara freezes and turns around just as a small, round face pokes through the curtains of the bed. It’s the face of a young Continental girl, perhaps no older than five, and she blinks sleepily at Shara and rubs her eyes.