When she is attacked by a patient possessed by something, Dara tells her there is only one place she will be safe: Daevabad, the legedary city of brass. Not only does she discover that the magic she has always dismissed is real, but she also learns of her family history - and she's so much more than a homeless con artist. When she accidentally summons Darayavahoush, a Daeva djinn warrior, during one of her scams, her life is turned upside down. She's trying to save up as much as she can in order to study medicine, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon.
But what she really wants is to be a real healer. She's built herself a reputation as a healer through her schemes, swindling the rich and powerful Ottomans, just to get by. Nahri is a homeless con artist, orphaned as a baby, living on the streets of 18th Century Cairo. Chkaraborty, and for bloody good reason! It's incredible! Oh my god, this book! Everyone has been raving about The City of Brass by S. Trigger Warning: This book features racism heavily, though between fantasy races. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.Īfter all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by-palm readings, zars, healings-are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.īut when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. Certainly, she has power on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. Chakraborty-an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and One Thousand and One Nights, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S.
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