She’s not perfect but there’s a likeability to her anyway, and I believe her character development across three books is going to be epic. She will simply show you, and while doing that, she also reveals how deeply flawed her character is. I immediately took a liking to her because she’s the kind of badass woman who doesn’t need to constantly tell the reader she’s badass. It starts out very strong with the introduction of the main character, Nahri, who is making her living as a con artist on the streets of 18th century Cairo.
It’s a book that mixes magic, Middle Eastern folklore and complex politics to create a highly addicting story that, even though I didn’t love everything, was very hard for me to put down. The City of Brass is the first book in a fantasy trilogy centered around djinn and their magical city Daevabad.
That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.Īfter all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for… That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by-palm readings, zars, healings-are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.īut when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. Certainly, she has power on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. Synopsis: Nahri has never believed in magic. Buzzwords: Middle Eastern fantasy, djinn, political fantasy
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