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anuragsahay 's review for:
City of Miracles
by Robert Jackson Bennett
While I really enjoyed both the previous books of this trilogy, they had some pretty obvious flaws; the characters suffered from a "tell instead of show" sort of coolness, the plot twists were fairly predictable (though that improved a fair bit by book 2) and there was some amount of Mary Sue-ness with some characters, for example, consider Sigrud's ability to magically come out ahead in any encounter he participates in, including but not limited to his fight with the magical serpent creature in book 1.
This book washes most of my criticisms away by doing all the things that I liked as well, and doing everything I disliked _much, much_ better. For one thing, the book comes up with a credible explanation for Sigrud's Mary Sue-ness.
This was the perfect capstone for the trilogy as a whole, and while neither Sigrud nor Mulaghesh were as relatable to me as Shara was, I enjoyed reading the story from their perspectives as well. The trilogy as a whole tells a very interesting story, which is reminiscent of Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence in the beginning and N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy by the end.
If you like either of those authors, I highly recommend these books. The writing isn't as polished, but it improves drastically throughout the series, and doesn't detract from everything else that the series does well.
This book washes most of my criticisms away by doing all the things that I liked as well, and doing everything I disliked _much, much_ better. For one thing, the book comes up with a credible explanation for Sigrud's Mary Sue-ness.
This was the perfect capstone for the trilogy as a whole, and while neither Sigrud nor Mulaghesh were as relatable to me as Shara was, I enjoyed reading the story from their perspectives as well. The trilogy as a whole tells a very interesting story, which is reminiscent of Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence in the beginning and N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy by the end.
If you like either of those authors, I highly recommend these books. The writing isn't as polished, but it improves drastically throughout the series, and doesn't detract from everything else that the series does well.