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slowreaderpeter 's review for:
The Kingdom of Copper
by S.A. Chakraborty
Mild spoilers: seriously, nothing major if you’ve already read City of Brass.
I still have issues with this book and this series (the three leads are a bit too melodramatic for my personal taste), but like City of Brass, I found Kingdom of Copper quite enjoyable and the magical world quite wonderful.
I actually found Kingdom of Copper more enjoyable than its predecessor. I think it was helped by the separation of its three leads at the beginning and not trying to force the various romantic interests and interactions. Forcing the relationships and the potential love triangle in City of Brass was the biggest turn-off for me when starting the series. Backing off and letting them go a bit more naturally helped a fair amount in this sequel.
The only other thing that bothered me, which was present in City of Brass but not something I really noticed as much until Kingdom of Copper, was how the characters handled their emotions, or how we were told about their emotions. For example, we are told that Nahri is pragmatic and has always been good at closing off her emotions, same as we are told that Dara is hardened from war and has closed himself off aside from the death of his family, but then both characters are immediately shown to be very emotional and act on those emotions regularly. It’s not bad that they do this, that they are emotional and act upon those emotion, I just wish we weren’t told the characters are one way and then immediately shown they act another.
Still very enjoyable though. Looking forward to reading The Empire of Gold.
I still have issues with this book and this series (the three leads are a bit too melodramatic for my personal taste), but like City of Brass, I found Kingdom of Copper quite enjoyable and the magical world quite wonderful.
I actually found Kingdom of Copper more enjoyable than its predecessor. I think it was helped by the separation of its three leads at the beginning and not trying to force the various romantic interests and interactions. Forcing the relationships and the potential love triangle in City of Brass was the biggest turn-off for me when starting the series. Backing off and letting them go a bit more naturally helped a fair amount in this sequel.
The only other thing that bothered me, which was present in City of Brass but not something I really noticed as much until Kingdom of Copper, was how the characters handled their emotions, or how we were told about their emotions. For example, we are told that Nahri is pragmatic and has always been good at closing off her emotions, same as we are told that Dara is hardened from war and has closed himself off aside from the death of his family, but then both characters are immediately shown to be very emotional and act on those emotions regularly. It’s not bad that they do this, that they are emotional and act upon those emotion, I just wish we weren’t told the characters are one way and then immediately shown they act another.
Still very enjoyable though. Looking forward to reading The Empire of Gold.