City of Blades

The Divine Cities

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

The city of Voortyashtan was once the home of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it's little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to find a Saypuri secret agent who's gone AWOL in the middle of a mission. But the ghosts of past wars have followed her there, and soon she begins to wonder what happened to the souls in the afterlife when the gods were defeated by her people, the Polis. Do the dead sleep soundly in the land of death? Or do they have plans of their own?

©2016 Robert Jackson Bennett (P)2016 Recorded Books

Good Read

it was not as good as city of stairs, but is a really good follow up book. a first in any series has the benefit of new, of introducing characters. the pacing of this one is different, but a great perspective shift following the general around.

More depressing than the first one

Different characters and a different tone than the first one, but still pretty good. Not really a sequel in the traditional sense.

Fantastic fantasy

I love City of Stairs when I first read it and this book only improves upon a book I already love.

Good but not nearly as good as the first book

I enjoyed it, however knowing how much better the first was, this leaves much to be desired.

Not as good as the first, but still pretty good

In the sequel here we get a time jump of 5 years and we don’t follow Shara anymore. Instead we follow a side character from the first book, who I liked originally, but liked even less here. We get to meet some interesting characters and see another new and different city. The setting isn’t my favorite, the city here just didn’t feel as interesting as in the first book.

If you liked the first one, I say check this one out. Although I wouldn’t say it’s as good, it continues a lot of plots I was very interested in seeing after the first book. I do hope we get more from Shara again in the final book.