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rndana 's review for:
City of Miracles
by Robert Jackson Bennett
I loved this book. I just thought I'd love it more.
It was a fitting end to the trilogy - after exploring the topics of belief and guilt, the third book is all about power and the use of it to gain justice. And while the end of the book puts all the pieces in the right places to conclude it all in an extremely sutisfiying way, the road which takes us there is less smooth. Mainly because in no point of the trilogy until the last quarter of Com, Sigrud is depicted as someone who's motivated by revenge (before Shara's death. him going mad after Signe's death not included). For that reason, his spiritual journey in the end, while playing a role in moving the story, did not feel true.
Also, despite being an extremely fun to read in previous books, Sigrud just was not as good a main character as Shara and Mulaghesh. Most of what he's doing is action scenes and self pity, and after a while I just got enough of it. Ivaniya and Tati are also much less interesting than the companions in the previous books, including Sigrud himself.
Anyway, it's still a very good book. It has good proportions of action, philosophy, humor and human interactions, and thought it weaves the ends well together, I'm somewhat sad to part with the Divine Cities universe. It was a great journey.
It was a fitting end to the trilogy - after exploring the topics of belief and guilt, the third book is all about power and the use of it to gain justice. And while the end of the book puts all the pieces in the right places to conclude it all in an extremely sutisfiying way, the road which takes us there is less smooth. Mainly because in no point of the trilogy until the last quarter of Com, Sigrud is depicted as someone who's motivated by revenge (before Shara's death. him going mad after Signe's death not included). For that reason, his spiritual journey in the end, while playing a role in moving the story, did not feel true.
Also, despite being an extremely fun to read in previous books, Sigrud just was not as good a main character as Shara and Mulaghesh. Most of what he's doing is action scenes and self pity, and after a while I just got enough of it. Ivaniya and Tati are also much less interesting than the companions in the previous books, including Sigrud himself.
Anyway, it's still a very good book. It has good proportions of action, philosophy, humor and human interactions, and thought it weaves the ends well together, I'm somewhat sad to part with the Divine Cities universe. It was a great journey.