City of Lies
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Beschreibung
Jovan wears two faces. Outwardly, he is the lifelong friend of the Chancellor's charming, irresponsible heir. Quiet. Forgettable. But in truth he is a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor's family from treachery.
His sister, Kalina, hides her frustrations behind a mask of serenity. While other women of the city holds positions of power and responsibility, her path is full of secrets and lies - some hidden even from her own brother.
When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army lays siege to the city, the siblings' world begins to truly unravel. Trapped and desperate, they soon discover that the society into which they were born and grew up also has two faces - for behind the sophistication and beauty lies an ugly truth, that this is a world built on oppression and treachery . . .
Winner of the 2018 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the 2018 Ditmar Award for Best Novel, and the Norma K Hemming Award for works exploring issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability or class, this fabulous epic fantasy debut will appeal to readers of Robin Hobb and Mark Lawrence and all points in between.
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I started of pretty much adoring this book. The writing sucked me in and had little self-aware details, the characters were fun to be around and the setting seemed fascinating as well. The things I enjoyed were mostly in the small things Sam Hawke did, but after a while I noticed they weren't enough to get me through a 600p book. I didn't love the plot and I was promised a fantasy whodunnit but the mystery aspects weren't a stronger focus than in most political fantasy books and there weren't any surprising twists and revelations or even much to guess along with. While it was still an enjoyable read nothing could blow me away. However, piece by piece, it turned into a bundle of tropes I did not care for at all, to a point where I wasn't sure If I even wanted to finish the last 150 pages. Some topics were heavy handed, characters acted in frustrating ways and there wasn't good set-up, actually the last thing is true for the whole book. Apart from that it was almost like it was written by different people, turning from this charming book that seemed to integrate the topic of poison in an interesting way and had this great character in Kalina, someone who physically just can't do certain things but is still an awesome person and asset, to not doing much with its story and including clichés I thought a lot of people were sick of.
Beschreibung
Jovan wears two faces. Outwardly, he is the lifelong friend of the Chancellor's charming, irresponsible heir. Quiet. Forgettable. But in truth he is a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor's family from treachery.
His sister, Kalina, hides her frustrations behind a mask of serenity. While other women of the city holds positions of power and responsibility, her path is full of secrets and lies - some hidden even from her own brother.
When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army lays siege to the city, the siblings' world begins to truly unravel. Trapped and desperate, they soon discover that the society into which they were born and grew up also has two faces - for behind the sophistication and beauty lies an ugly truth, that this is a world built on oppression and treachery . . .
Winner of the 2018 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the 2018 Ditmar Award for Best Novel, and the Norma K Hemming Award for works exploring issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability or class, this fabulous epic fantasy debut will appeal to readers of Robin Hobb and Mark Lawrence and all points in between.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
I started of pretty much adoring this book. The writing sucked me in and had little self-aware details, the characters were fun to be around and the setting seemed fascinating as well. The things I enjoyed were mostly in the small things Sam Hawke did, but after a while I noticed they weren't enough to get me through a 600p book. I didn't love the plot and I was promised a fantasy whodunnit but the mystery aspects weren't a stronger focus than in most political fantasy books and there weren't any surprising twists and revelations or even much to guess along with. While it was still an enjoyable read nothing could blow me away. However, piece by piece, it turned into a bundle of tropes I did not care for at all, to a point where I wasn't sure If I even wanted to finish the last 150 pages. Some topics were heavy handed, characters acted in frustrating ways and there wasn't good set-up, actually the last thing is true for the whole book. Apart from that it was almost like it was written by different people, turning from this charming book that seemed to integrate the topic of poison in an interesting way and had this great character in Kalina, someone who physically just can't do certain things but is still an awesome person and asset, to not doing much with its story and including clichés I thought a lot of people were sick of.