Live-blogging into the void now that I’ve finally started City of Brass.
SPOILER WARNING (I’m only partway through book one though so not many)
Nahri had my heart from the very first scene. Amazing.
I’m so happy I have the wooden map from illumicrate for this book because I don’t have to keep flipping back to the one in the book every few pages.
I’m reminded how little sense of geography I have every time I start a new book. Oh X is east of Y and you told me this on page 2? Fantastic, I have forgotten by page 4 and have no concept of where I am now.
People are going to call Dara + Nahri enemies to lovers, aren’t they? Will I be pleasantly surprised and they’ll be lovers and THEN enemies (actual enemies, not just gruff with each other)?
That sounded snarky. I just dislike the overuse of enemies to lovers as a term when it doesn’t apply. No shade on the book at all- every page I have read has been perfection.
I called the illusion spell ages back and I love feeling self satisfied that I’m right.
I don’t know if Muntadhir is going to be a beacon of hope and die tragically, or if he’s going to horrifically betray all the characters I care about in some way, but I bet one of those things happen.
The creatures in this series are beautifully written. It’s apparent that there’s an entire background of world building taken from real world mythology, but I still have plenty of context to appreciate the book, and am now just hooked on reading more stories in this/a similar setting.
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