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rgreatreader 's review for:
City of Miracles
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Damn! Really good.
The cycle of violence and colonialism and destruction that Bennett explores is something I think about sometimes.
At first, I was dubious with Sigrud as a main character, especially a Sigrud without Shara, but I loved his point of view.
I also loved seeing an oft-told story - young woman (Taty) finds out her mother (Shara) has been hiding a huge secret past, meets confederates of her mother who tell her about a Shara she never saw, gets drawn into a story and a conflict she didn't know she would be a part of - from the perspective of Sigrud, the old confederate, instead of from Taty's. Not only is it a fresher way to tell that narrative, seeing Taty from Sigrud's point of view was really cool. She is bloodthirsty and broken and Sigrud wants to protect her - and that's the point, instead of her growing into some Hunger Games-style killer.
My one thought is that the plot is not as subtle as that of the other books in the series. The epigraphs especially take away some of the mystery.
The cycle of violence and colonialism and destruction that Bennett explores is something I think about sometimes.
At first, I was dubious with Sigrud as a main character, especially a Sigrud without Shara, but I loved his point of view.
I also loved seeing an oft-told story - young woman (Taty) finds out her mother (Shara) has been hiding a huge secret past, meets confederates of her mother who tell her about a Shara she never saw, gets drawn into a story and a conflict she didn't know she would be a part of - from the perspective of Sigrud, the old confederate, instead of from Taty's. Not only is it a fresher way to tell that narrative, seeing Taty from Sigrud's point of view was really cool. She is bloodthirsty and broken and Sigrud wants to protect her - and that's the point, instead of her growing into some Hunger Games-style killer.
My one thought is that the plot is not as subtle as that of the other books in the series. The epigraphs especially take away some of the mystery.