7/1/2023 0 Comments The city we became coverThe "only-with-our-powers-combined" story felt a little like a Captain Planet episode. Well, let's say Jemisin writes the English accent about as well as I do the New York accent and leave it at that, eh? Luckily they don't appear again after the first few chapters. Like, are Brooklynites really so different from Manhattanites? The sole British character is. I don't get the fetishisation that some city dwellers have for people from their sub-regions. I only stuck with it because I enjoyed the author's previous book " How Long 'til Black Future Month?" I'm glad I did - because it has an immensely satisfying pay-off.Īt the start, it's confusing whirligig of a book. I found the sycophantic attitude to New York alienating and pretentious. I intensely disliked the first half of the story it was all build-up with no action. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all. New York City? She's got five.īut every city also has a dark side. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.
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