· If someone was to make a trailer for CITY OF BLADES, this would be the song for it: not only is the river imagery associated with death (appropriately enough), but it’s also a deeply foreboding song, with groans, moans, and sighs in the background. Where City of Stairs examined history and who gets to tell the world’s stories, City of Blades is an examination of warfare and the people caught up in it. While we all know that war is bad and not a /5(). “Like the very best speculative fiction, City of Blades immerses readers in a made-up world, only to force us to take a harder look at the real one.” —Booklist. Praise for City of Stairs, finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards.
/ •. Live. •. Robert Jackson Bennett describes his CITY OF BLADES to unsuspecting victims at NYC Comic Con Every once in a while I read a book that's so well done, I find myself wanting to punch the author in the face out of pure envy. Congratulations Bennett, you just made the face-punching list!". About Robert Jackson Bennett. ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT is the author of American Elsewhere, The Troupe, The Company Man, and Mr. Shivers, as well as The Divine Cities trilogy. His work has received the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Phillip K. Dick More about Robert Jackson Bennett. City of Blades is the second novel in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Divine Cities sequence featuring my favorite character from City of Stairs and it might surprise you to know it's not Sigrud! I know the big Dreyling was a fan favorite from the first book, but for me personally, the most intriguing and admirable character has always been.
For all that City of Blades shares with City of Stairs, Bennett’s decision to bench book one’s embattled protagonist Shara Komayd in favour of General Turyin Mulaghesh sets the two texts apart. City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett Series: The Divine Cities (Book 2) Paperback: pages Publisher: Broadway Books (Janu) Language: English ISBN ISBN Where City of Stairs examined history and who gets to tell the world’s stories, City of Blades is an examination of warfare and the people caught up in it. While we all know that war is bad and not a state that any of us desire, City of Blades doesn’t demonise soldiers at all.
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