City of Stairs
Jun. 21st, 2018 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraNot related to City of Brass or City of Bones or City of Gold and Lead or anything else we came up with after I read City of Brass.
City of Stairs is by Robert Jackson Bennett and is the first book of a Hugo Series-nominated trilogy, although it ends like a complete story and I understand the other books move to other POV characters. I really liked it... it's sort of pitched as a spy thriller with fantastic elements but it's also serious epic fantasy. Compelling stuff about what happens later after major overturns in the world order, some great action... bit of a slow build so it's hard to even say too much about where it ends up, but I'll compare it to Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence (of which I've only read the first three so please no spoilers beyond that!) or Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy. I look forward to reading the other two - ideally before finishing my series ballot, although after, if not.
(For voting purposes, I probably need to focus on Graphics or Relateds at this point, where the difference between having read and not having read something is more stark than chasing additional books of serieses, although I also don't plan to finalize my series ballot until the last possible minute just to see what I do have time for.)
Please note this is a 2014 book and I'm tagging it as 2017 so I can track it with other Hugo reading.
City of Stairs is by Robert Jackson Bennett and is the first book of a Hugo Series-nominated trilogy, although it ends like a complete story and I understand the other books move to other POV characters. I really liked it... it's sort of pitched as a spy thriller with fantastic elements but it's also serious epic fantasy. Compelling stuff about what happens later after major overturns in the world order, some great action... bit of a slow build so it's hard to even say too much about where it ends up, but I'll compare it to Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence (of which I've only read the first three so please no spoilers beyond that!) or Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy. I look forward to reading the other two - ideally before finishing my series ballot, although after, if not.
(For voting purposes, I probably need to focus on Graphics or Relateds at this point, where the difference between having read and not having read something is more stark than chasing additional books of serieses, although I also don't plan to finalize my series ballot until the last possible minute just to see what I do have time for.)
Please note this is a 2014 book and I'm tagging it as 2017 so I can track it with other Hugo reading.
