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wentworthian 's review for:
City of Miracles
by Robert Jackson Bennett
4 stars overall - i adore sigrud with every fiber of my being, but i don't know that i wanted a whole book in his POV (admittedly, i will never recover from loml bookworm spy shara komayd, and reading this just makes me want to read city of stairs all over again*), and the resolution of the villain's storyline felt a bit pat. but 5 stars for that ending alone, which was small and quiet and heartbreaking and exactly what the series needed to close itself out.
* actually, i found myself comparing this quite frequently to city of stairs, and i'm not sure why. all three books have a different tone, but there was just something about CoS's style -- even CoB. i think maybe because shara (and mulaghesh) had to rely more on her wits, so you were kind of solving the mysteries along with her. sigrud is clever but -- and i know this is kind of the point -- so much of him has always been defined by following orders or moving towards a single goal, that i really missed a narrator who was trying to figure out the whole picture. oh well. at least a couple characters finally got to smooch without being eaten by a god. /looks at shara and vo for all of eternity
* actually, i found myself comparing this quite frequently to city of stairs, and i'm not sure why. all three books have a different tone, but there was just something about CoS's style -- even CoB. i think maybe because shara (and mulaghesh) had to rely more on her wits, so you were kind of solving the mysteries along with her. sigrud is clever but -- and i know this is kind of the point -- so much of him has always been defined by following orders or moving towards a single goal, that i really missed a narrator who was trying to figure out the whole picture. oh well. at least a couple characters finally got to smooch without being eaten by a god. /looks at shara and vo for all of eternity