City of Stairs - BookWyrm.de

452 Seiten

Sprache: English

Erschienen am 2014

ISBN:: 978-0-8041-3717-1
OCLC-Nummer:: 862222210

The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions — until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its former supremacy.

Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov’s oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country’s most accomplished spies, dispatched — along with her terrifying “secretary”, Sigrud — to solve a murder.

But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem, and that Bulikov’s cruel reign may not yet be over.

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The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions — until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its former supremacy.

Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov’s oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country’s most accomplished spies, dispatched — along with her terrifying “secretary”, Sigrud — to solve a murder.

But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem, and that Bulikov’s cruel reign may not yet be over.

A tale of vast conspiracies, dead gods, and buried histories, City of Stairs is at once a gripping spy novel and a stunningly original work of fantasy.

1 Auflage

Lazy_Cat hat City of Stairs von Robert Jackson Bennett besprochen

Extremely Enjoyable

5 Sterne

What a fantastic book. I am biased in that I really love Robert Jackson Bennett's writing, but this was definitely a good story. Very weighty. I've criticized other books for bringing up philosophical questions and not answering them but that's because those books literally bring them up, using characters as a mouthpiece to just point blank ask questions which is unsatisfying. This book makes YOU ask the questions. It has a lot to say about religion and bureaucracy, about history and truth, and about generational pain and trauma.

Amusingly, if the Shadow of the Leviathan series is about trusting the system, then the Divine Cities series (or at least this book) is about bucking establishment and rules in an effort to do good instead of serving the status quo.

What a fantastic book. I am biased in that I really love Robert Jackson Bennett's writing, but this was definitely a good story. Very weighty. I've criticized other books for bringing up philosophical questions and not answering them but that's because those books literally bring them up, using characters as a mouthpiece to just point blank ask questions which is unsatisfying. This book makes YOU ask the questions. It has a lot to say about religion and bureaucracy, about history and truth, and about generational pain and trauma.

Amusingly, if the Shadow of the Leviathan series is about trusting the system, then the Divine Cities series (or at least this book) is about bucking establishment and rules in an effort to do good instead of serving the status quo.

kholerik hat City of Stairs von Robert Jackson Bennett besprochen

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4 Sterne

This was on my to-read list for a while and I got it as part of package of used books. I enjoyed the book a lot. The world felt fresh and plausible, the characters are not too young, they feel fleshed out and the story was also entertaining. The story is capable people saving the day, which I feel is half-way to the "Chosen One" trope. I do enjoy this, but if you don't, be aware. I think I'll continue the series at some point. The other books are not mainly from Shara's POV, which is what I liked in this book. But I enjoyed the world so much I probably have to return.

Themen

Murder
Investigation
Spy stories
Fiction