National Public Radio lauded the novel as better and more "streamlined" than Stairs, and commended Bennett's decision to abandon both the setting and the majority of the cast of the first novel as "stupid and brave". Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource.
The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for City of Blades are 9780553419726, 0553419722 and the print ISBNs are 9780553419719, 0553419714. City of Blades The Divine Cities By: Robert Jackson Bennett Narrated by: Alma Cuervo Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins 4.5 (674 ratings) Try for 0. Strange Horizons considered the novel to "rework(.) the fundamentals of in ways that serve to make it a much stronger work", emphasizing that Bennett's depictions of colonialism had improved, but faulting him for "opaque" portrayals of the Voortyashtani citizenry. City of Blades: A Novel is written by Robert Jackson Bennett and published by Del Rey. Publishers Weekly called it "astonishingly good" and "a deep, powerful novel that’s worth reading and rereading", with Mulaghesh - "a physically and emotionally wounded warrior who both loathes battle and excels at it" - being a "fascinating character". Kirkus Reviews found the novel to be "(l)ess literarily allusive than its predecessor", judging it to be "richly detailed and expertly plotted" - albeit with a less-than-optimal voice for Mulaghesh. A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of. It is the second novel in his Divine Cities trilogy.įive years after the events of City of Stairs, General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement so that she can carry out one last mission in the city of Voortyashtan. A triumphant return to the world of City of Stairs. City of Blades is a 2016 fantasy novel by Robert Jackson Bennett.
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