![]() ![]() Ali wants to help the shafit and he wants to live life the way he thinks it should be, but he also loves his family and would never do them harm. From his own POV chapters, he comes across as a very idealistic and likeable person. I actually thought Ali was one of the most fascinating characters of the book. And the shafit – the half djinn half human underclass – is very much oppressed but also more than willing to use Ali for their own ends. Ali’s family works to keep the peace of the city, and though the devout Ali is different from his brother and sister, it’s clear that the family loves one another. ![]() Dara is said to be a scourge and evil, but the tribe to which he belongs sees him as a hero. To make things more complex, no one faction is completely good or evil. So we have both the mysterious outsider and someone within the palace as our main characters. Apart from Nahri, we also have Alizayd, the second son of the ruling family of Daevabad. Well, I tried to summarise the book in one sentence but it’s actually so much more complex. Set in 18th century Cairo, City of Brass follows Nahri, a con-woman who accidentally summons Dara, a warrior djinn and realises that she may not be as human as she thought. I’m always on the look-out for fantasy based on non-Western cultures and mythologies, so I was really intrigued by City of Brass. ![]()
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