stolee 's review for:

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

4.0

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I admire this book more than I enjoyed it. It’s a fantastically inventive novel with a real mystery to how the magic works. I already have book two queued up and I’m curious as to how things go. Jemison is a master of perspective but I found every perspective in this book a challenge to get into. I’m not even sure I had a solid grasp of it by the end. This led to making this a difficult read. I rarely got swept up into it the way I like to be, hence the lack of a fifth star.