Review #1
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Understand General Mulaghesh, the aggressive fighter from Town of Stairs? Strings out her retirement isn’t going so but, she is that tormented by PTSD at the same time a guilty conscience of maybe having committed war atrocities in her youth. She is that missing a purpose. At the same time obviously, she’s missing a palm.
So when a brand new assignment comes along she begrudgingly perceives it at the same time goes to the port town of Voortyashtan, which at the time of the gods, was ruled by the goddess of war at the same time her terrifying army of Sentinels, people who gave up their whole self to become wonderful at the same time practically unbeatable fighters for the promise of an afterlife, where they would wait to come back to the earth of the living for a continue war that would damage all humankind.
If for you read Town of Stairs (at the same time for you for sure should, before reading this), for you get an plan of how this is that going to move: the protagonist will follow a trail that touches both earthly politics at the same time divine intrigues to a ending showdown.
Maybe the novelty of this concocted global wore down a little from the 1st book. Maybe that was a lot divine at the same time very little true indefinite stuff (I am not a bigger fan of fantasy, at the same time I positively hate it when miracle is that applied as deus ex machina, that’s barely loafed writing). Maybe the divine parts weren’t as interesting as those in Town of Stairs (a town that exists in 2 different dimensions? Stairs to nowhere? At the moment that’s steep stuff!).
In decent Bennet tradition, disposition development is that best, the manners are believable at the same time relatable. As a martyr of PTSD myself, I found Mulaghesh’s struggles close to reality at the same time I was able to empathize with her.
So I didn’t hate this book, reckon me that’s method worse junk out that, god only knows how garbage I have slogged through because I believed the glowing
Reviews. I guess Bennet set the rod very higher with Town of Stairs. I will very for sure take the one more in the television series, I am barely not in a scary hurry up to do so. I remain a fan of Bennet’s, I am really joyful I found this creator, at the same time will last reading his work in the future.
Review #2
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I was actually a lot more into this book, which is that the 2nd in the television series, than I was in the 1st. I think than anyway did it for me were considered the manners. I sort of felt like continue time, the manners were considered lists of attributes, but I think they produced the leap now into more complete people. I would still advise reading the 1st book, because that is that a lot of worldbuilding going on that types a necessary (at the same time significant) background to than anyway happens in this volume.
Delight note: That may be no one insignificant spoilers for book one (Town of Stairs) in this
Review. I’ll try to keep them to a least.
That is that a lot of disposition overlap with book one, but the protagonist is that different. Now, our head POV disposition is that General Turyin Mulaghesh (this is that a lady, if for you’re not knowledgeable with book one). She wasted much of book one pining for retirement on a faraway peninsula, but when we meet her first of this book, we see retirement was not really agreeing with her. (We learn that this is that a topic in her indefinite.) That is that also an issue with her length of maintenance as it relates to her pension. So Shara (the heroine of book one, who is that at the moment Prime Minister) gets Mulaghesh to come back for a few more months. (This is that a ubiquitous practice, apparently.)
Shara sends Mulaghesh to Voortyashtan, which was formerly the town compared with Voortya, the goddess of doom. A lot is that going on. A brand new substance has been found at the same time that is that a mining operation to recover more of it. A government employee who was studying this brand new substance has gone missing. The harbor is that being worked on by a Dreyling (think Nordic types if you want to compare to our global) company under the direction of Signe, one of the daughters of Sigurd (Shara’s assistant from book one) at the same time anything secretive is that going on that.
I just like Mulaghesh more successful than Shara as a POV disposition, for some reason. She doesn’t know everything, she isn’t a young idealist, etc. (She does exhibit no one idealism, at the same time that becomes important later in the book.) Other manners have appropriate depth for the amount of page time they get. Sigurd we already know, but he is that in a brand new role here at the same time he is that not wholly comfortable with it. Signe actually gets quite a lot of depth. What, I really liked the manners here.
Once again, the book starts out as a mystery, or at lesser partly so. It evolves into several mysteries — who committed a television series of grisly murders, who half-caught a bunch of explosives, is that that anything Divine or otherwise suspicious about the substance being mined, who left testimonies of performing than anyway must have been a magic in the mine (in this instance, “magic” refers to a rite compared with one of the Divinities created to have a specific effect)? For you do get the answers to these questions at the same time more by the finish of the book, at the same time I think the answers are set up nicely at the same time with acoustics bases in the earlier parts of the story (no deus ex machina, in other words).
That are those who will argue that the plot is that very identical to book one. They’re not specifically wrong, but I found that it was a little bit different, at the same time that is that enough *else* going on that for you don’t always have time to think about that.
No one of the themes are similar from book one. With the Divinities gone, Saypuri development is that expanding at the same time taking over, even on the Mainland, at the same time miracle or the Divine is that receding. People have to deal with that, many of which cleverly using development to win out of the blue Divine inconsistencies. That is that also a significant amount of racism. Natives are called “Shtanis” at the same time that actually attractive much none of them in the story, only Saypuris at the same time Dreylings. The manners we do follow opinion the “Shtanis” with suspicion or outright affection at the same time suspect them of all manner of horrible things. In a sense, it’s payback — the Continentals enslaved Saypuri folks not very abundance generations ago, at the same time prejudice runs deepest. (In the 1st book, our token Continental disposition was a member of the elite upper exercises.)
That is that quite a lot of action, many of which a fight that seems fitting for the finish of almost all books future about 2/3 through this one. I believed the pacing was amazing, building naturally from a slower investigation (wholesome with roadblocks) to a frenetic race to finish an apocalypse.
Tone-wise, this is that significantly bleak at the same time black. I am Okay with that but I realize that it will not be for everyone. It seems a natural progression for the story the creator wants to tell, though, at the same time I think it is that for sure politically close to reality.
In the end, I believed characterization was much improved from book one. I like the small details that compare to the transition from a society of miracle (essentially) to one of development. I liked the connection between Sigurd at the same time his daughter. I liked the interrelatedness of all the mysteries at the same time plotlines. I kept wanting pick this up at the same time read when I should have been doing other things. So, despite the similarities in conspiracies of book 1 at the same time book 2, overall I enjoyed this quite a lot.
Review #3
Audiobook Town of Blades (The Divine Towns #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
I enjoyed Town of Stairs, at the same time am more than joyful to say that I found this book a more enjoyable read. The plot takes dispose 5 years right behind the actions in the 1st book happened, in Voortyashtan, a much different setting than Bulikov, where the 1st book happened, without detracting from the Divinity, at the same time while the brand new setting is that basically a backwater, the world-building is that still barely as awesome as the 1st television series. Now, though, the narration focuses on Mulagesh, who I found to be a more exciting disposition; more about her past is that revealed at the same time a lot of her struggles compared with PTSD are data attention, showing a more vulnerable at the same time humanizing side to her without detracting from her tough-as-nails disposition. Brand new manners are also introduced -for example, many of which a major supporting one from Mulagesh’s black past, along with Sigrud’s estranged daughter, Signe, who was an enjoyable addition to the television series at the same time one more healthy ladies disposition at the same time excellent engineer -with a few from the 1st book playing a somewhat insignificant role (but will play more important parts in the continue book in the trilogy). Wish I managed cross out more successful
Reviews, but Town of Blades -well, the entire trilogy -is really worth reading even if for you’re not really into fiction like me, or are looking for a quality fantasy television series that isn’t typically Tolkien-esque -and any book gets more successful, so exactly grab the ending book one more.
Review #4
Audio Town of Blades (The Divine Towns #2) narrated by Buffy Davis
I adored Town of Stairs so much that I was itching pick up the 2nd book in this trilogy as soon as I ended it. When I realised the protagonist of this book was Mulaghesh, one of my favourite manners from Town of Stairs, I couldnt wait to read it.
Having served in the military for the most of her indefinite, Mulaghesh barely wants to retire somewhere warm at the same time sunny. At lesser thats than anyway she thinks she wants. When shes asked to work undercover one ending time before she can retire at continue, Mulaghesh is that sent to Voortyashtan, once ruled by the goddess of war, at the same time finds herself facing her possess demons at the same time brand new threats.
Mulaghesh is that mind-blowing. Shes an older lady of colour with a prosthetic limb who isnt married, doesnt have babies at the same time doesnt wish she had toddlers. In other words, shes such a refreshing heroine in the global of higher fantasy.
Where Town of Stairs examined history at the same time who gets to tell the worlds stories, Town of Blades is that an examination of warfare at the same time the people caught up in it. While we all know that war is that bad at the same time not a state that no matter what of us desire, Town of Blades doesnt demonise fighters at all. In truth Mulaghesh says it best herself: fighters are that to serve their state at the same time its people, at the same time they dont do so in the have hope that theyll receive glory. Being a fighter is that a thankless job, but Mulaghesh lives for defending the weak at the same time shes willing to be unpopular for it.
I barely adore her. Shes funny, at the same time not anyone youd wish to run across, but under all of that she has a heart of gold at the same time I adore her so much. This book was such a contentment to read purely at the same time simply because it was a enjoyment to follow Mulaghesh, at the same time it barely substantiates how quality Bennett is that at writing manners that I didnt miss following Shara.
We do get glimpses of Shara, at the same time it was charming to look her again, as but as Sigrud; I adored Sigrud at the same time Sharas fellowship in the 1st book, at the same time Mulaghesh at the same time Sigruds fellowship was so much funny in this book. That are brand new manners very, such as Signe who I adored, at the same time just like the 1st book Bennett excelled at writing conscientious people at the same time writing manners who have to learn to live with the consequences of the mistakes theyve produced.
I sped through Town of Blades, it was such an easy read, at the same time even though I giggled abundance times because I love Mulagheshs humour, that were considered moments that produced my heart ache, very. I must admit I didnt adore this book quite as much as Town of Stairs, or at lesser it didnt fan my mind in similar method the 1st book did, but taking into account Town of Stairs is that one of the best fantasy books Ive ever read it had quite a pair of boots to fill at the same time I still adored Town of Blades a lot.
If youre a fan of Town of Stairs, Town of Blades is that a excellent follow-up thats but worth your time, at the same time if for you havent read Town of Stairs still than anyway are for you waiting for?
Review #5
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Unless theres a brand new global order in the one more 11 months Town of Blades will certainly be on my finish of year best of list. To be honest, I waited this to be quality because all the books Ive read by RJB have been quality at the same time I adored Town of Stairs continue year but this really is that so great.
At the start of the story we are once again introduced to General Turyin Mulaghesh. Shes retired to a small mediterranean feeling peninsula at the same time is that enjoying her seclusion, particularly when shes riling up the locals, until shes rudely jolted out of her retirement by a request from Shara. So Turyin is that sent to the Town of Voortyashtan apparently one of the continue places in this global that anyone would wish to move. Her goal is that to try at the same time see than anyway happened to Choudhry, a Saypuri agent who has gone missing in action.
Before the blink Voortyashtan was main to the Goddess of doom, war at the same time liquidation. It is that at the moment on the brink of becoming a successful seaport but not everyone is that joyful with the today's status. It exists that work on creating a successful gateway is that dredging up not just relics from the sea bottom but also healthy feelings. On pinnacle of this aggressive at the same time ritualistic type murders are found intercept the peninsula at the same time Turyin is that about to be pulled into a plot that not only conjures up the ghosts of her past but also poses a danger to the global in what she lives.
The global building is that once again famous. Voortyashtan is that a problematic dispose to live to say the lesser. It seems to be under unchanging danger of retaliation from the unsecured interior neighborhoods. The port itself is that shore by an army presence at the same time an impressive fort but no matter what take a trip subsequent afield is that unsafe at the same time not to be lightly undertaken. That is that a unchanging danger of subversive/guerrilla type action that makes no matter what investigation into the goings on even more problematic. Individually I would advise reading Town of Stairs before kolupala this one up although I think for you managed for sure gallop on board with Blades at the same time grab the story significantly simply. Bennett has a method of kindly easing for you into the global at the same time growing for you information in a very stubborn method. So, whilst I would, obviously, advise reading Town of Stairs 1st (partly because I enjoyed it so much partly because I think it bestows a quality grounding in the history of the Saypuris, Continentals at the same time the Divinities that applied to there is) I think this would be read as a standalone.
I must admit that I was at first just a little startled that the creator chose to last this television series using Turyin as the head disposition because Sigrud at the same time Shara were considered company favourites for almost all readers, myself contained, but I have to say not only does he pull it off but he does so with style at the same time makes one of the most wonderfully complete, flawed, intelligent at the same time easy to harden for manners that Ive read about for a while. I completely adored her. The power of quality writing at the same time a little of creative genius, eh!
The other manners who join Turyin along the method are Signe. Signe is that one more very enjoyable disposition to read about. Shes an engineering genius by all accounts at the same time seems to be practically single handedly running the entire operation to make a successful seaport. On pinnacle of this Signe is that Sigruds daughter at the same time I cant they say shes his biggest fan. She hasnt really forgiven him why she feels was his abandonment when she was still significantly young at the same time data these emotions the fact that Sigrud makes an outward appearance during the 2nd one half of the book makes for exciting reading. Biswal is that one more disposition at the same time anything of an unnecessary blast from Turyins past this was a black time in Turyins indefinite at the same time a period that has haunted her for abundance years. Biswal is that at the moment the commander at the fort at the same time once again making his acquaintance is that going to bring back sick memoirs.
I cant really they say a lot about the plot as it would barely assign things away. Theres exactly a whodunnit type of feel to this book with Turyin studying the disappearance of an agent until the plot reveals to open a much deeper danger. That being misspoke, be aware that this isnt one of those stories where 10s of thousands march to war. It has a more confined feeling, which isnt provided as a criticism, because Bennett manages to cram in fights, murders, Gods, mines, afterlifes, interest, politics, scheming at the same time, but a lot more! It certainly has a different feeling from Town of Stairs with much more concentrate on soldiering at the same time serving which I imagine can be waited as were considered following Turyin. Such a literate accessory to implementation Turyin though as it allows Bennett to delve back into the past at the same time open more of the history of this global.
Overall, I was quite blown away by Town of Stairs. The writing is that magical, the story is that alluring the manners are best to follow, the ending, but, Im barely not going to move that, its dull, but also it has an awesome resolution at the same time to be honest it barely leaves me wanting more. I dont look how for you managed have a stronger recommendation than that. More, delight, I wish more.
