The City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy)

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In Daevabad, within gilded brass walls laced with enchantments and behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments run deep. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, her arrival threatens to ignite a war that has been simmering for centuries. Create Your Own Villain: The Qahtanis' treatment of Manizheh, controlling her life, keeping her as a virtual prisoner in the infirmary, and punishing her brother if she ever stepped out of line caused a deep hatred and resentment in her which ultimately lead to her faking her own death and plotting to overthrow the Qahtanis. Everything about it looked and sounded appealing (in the eyes of a child, through the TV screen, I suppose), pulling off one unforgettable con after another, living off your wits and charm etc… sadly, I had neither the wit nor the charm to pull anything off and had to settle for a normal childhood. So, obviously this was my chance to live vicariously through Nahri and I jumped on that wagon faster than a speeding bullet. What if instead of dragging Dara away from his bromance with Khyzur (that's what was going on there, right?), Nahri found Dara's slave vessel when he was still in it? Dara thinks Nahri is just the next human master-soon to be the latest line in his slave mark. Nahri does not know what the hell she has managed to steal this time. They still end up on a path to Daevabad but with very different shape to their relationship. Language: English Words: 38,018 Chapters: 23/23 Comments: 33 Kudos: 24 Bookmarks: 4 Hits: 498 Proud Scholar Race: The bird-like peris are quite knowledgeable about most subjects, but their smug aloofness means getting them to act is an exercise in frustration.

The original rulers of Daevabad and descendants of Anahid, the Nahids were a family of extraordinary magical healers, hailing from the Daeva tribe. For me, there is little better than finishing a book I really like, then realizing every other entry in the series gets a little longer than the last. When I really just want to get lost in another world, because I’m taking some time off or I need a mental break or I just want to stop thinking about the world, I love knowing there’s a lot of some other world to get lost in.Arranged Marriage: Ghassan plans to unite the Qahtanis and Nahids by marrying Muntadhir to Nahri. Both decide to be pragmatic about the situation. At the end, they happily burn their marriage contract and become Amicable Exes. Oh Jamshid, she thought, my child, what have you done? Language: English Words: 4,012 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Comments: 8 Kudos: 17 Bookmarks: 2 Hits: 217 The world building is so….complex it actually crossed over into the line of “complicated” and overshadows ANYTHING ELSE My art for Struthless' alphabet challenge, where every week I will be creating one art for one alphabet letter. I plan it to be mostly character's portraits. Language: English Words: 0 Chapters: 10/26 Comments: 12 Kudos: 13 Hits: 357

The Djinn in this series are a race of magical beings who live separate from humanity, and exhibit extreme Fantastic Racism towards those who mix with humans. The books center on Nahri, a Cairo-based con artist who uses strange abilities she doesn’t really question to swindle people. Nahri doesn’t know anything of the magical world that lives right alongside her own, but when she accidentally draws the attention of a djinn (a powerful fire elemental) named Dara, she is swept into a journey to the city of Daevabad, a gleaming place where the various magical nations of the world come together to live in an enormous, beautiful metropolis. Powers via Possession: Ali gains marid powers when he allows them to possess him. Some powers linger after the possession ends, which he's none too pleased about. All in all, it was a fun-ish read but no minds were blown here. I loved it for the sole reason that it shifted the centre away from western myths, with a strong conclusion and a craftily set up epilogue. I'll give credit where credit is due, the epilogue was incredible. Invisible to Normals: Ali isn't totally invisible to humans, but they don't notice him unless he makes an effort to get their attention, and it only lasts a moment before they forget he's there.I can’t believe I have finally read the last book in this amazing trilogy; I read this over Christmas. I have raved about how good these books are and I was so excited to read the last instalment, but as I was reading I realised that there would be no more Ali, Nahri, Dara and Daevabad, that this was it and I almost didn’t want to finish it. S.A Chakraborty writes such a rich and wonderful world based on middle east folklore, detailed and full of wonder that drew me in. These books are like a fairytale for adults, with the young orphan who goes from rags to riches and falls in love with the wrong man, the young prince trying to take a stand against his family, a love triangle and ultimately good versus evil. There are also morals in these books about racism, sexuality, acceptance and prejudice that mirror our own society. Add to this the amazing six tribes that make up this world, and their use of the elements as their power this really is a fascinating world. Among other awards and nominations which will be added here soon, the Daevabad series was nominated for a Hugo Award, a 2021 Best Series finalist. [2] The characters were all very meh. Nahri and Ali were both quite bland and didn’t really have any character traits. Like you know paper? That blank white thin sheet of nothing? That’s exactly what reminds me of them. And while Dara wasn’t the BEST character, at least he had an actual, you know, personality. And he roasted Ali so that was extremely entertaining. The Daevabad trilogy also ripples with political intrigue. Fantasy often provides a great lens to look at politics through a funhouse mirror, because its depiction of a world that is usually still highly monarchical allows for characters to ascend and descend the ladders of power in a manner directly based on who has favor with the ruler. (Obviously, the same happens in modern liberal democracies, but the process is often less direct.)

Then in the later books, the Nahids make the Qahtanis look like an absolute model of family harmony. Manipulation, scheming, and murder were just par for the course. Evil Chancellor: Kaveh, from the Geziri perspective. He actively plots to restore the Nahids to power and is the one who releases the poison that kills Ghassan and many other Geziris. I am sorry but I don't think we can work this out. Believe me when I say that it is not YOU—it is ME. That does sound like the biggest lie, doesn't it? But I haven't even explored you entirely and I can't judge something I haven't seen the full potential of (that just sounds very inappropriate in my mind now). For a brief time, we knew each other... 10 chapters to be precise, I liked you, or maybe I liked the idea of you because everyone else liked you. Then I even stretched this relationship for a month, in hopes that maybe someday I can read you as everyone else does. But—I can't :(

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But 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. 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. Do you remember the first time a book took you out of your culture? I think for most of us it happens in childhood. For me, my passage to other countries and times came in the form of fairy tales and legends. We had a fat volume of Arabian Nights (most likely edited for kids) with lavish line illustrations. That was my first introduction to Sinbad the Sailor and Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp and many other wonderful tales. And it was my first introduction to Genies, as they were spelled in that wonderful book. Before the six tribes of djinn woke to their new reality marked by Suleiman’s curse, daevas lived in a vastly different world. Loose tribes that followed one of the seven kings roamed the desert sands, carried on scorching winds, and vanished into the unseen realms. Worshiped as vengeful or merciful gods among humankind, there was little for which to want. Anything that was wanted could be taken.