Hello Humans! Welcome to another W2RW, where I explore a book I’ve recently added to my Want to Read shelf! This week’s book was added after I kept seeing it pop up on twitter and I just had to see what all the fuss was about!
Goodreads Summary:
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. 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.
But 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. 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.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for .
Is this book on your TBR? Let me know in the comments below!
J
I love this book!! It’s totally worth all the hype in my opinion. I hope you enjoy it!
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Thank you! Hoping to read it in the near future!
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I want to read this so badly! I can’t wait to get my paws on it.
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It’s available for request on Netgalley and I’m crossing my fingers SO HARD
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IS IT SERIOUSLY???
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YES
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REQUESTED
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JOIN ME IN THE UNBEARABLE WAIT
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I read it as well and would definitely recommend it. I didn’t like everything about it. But it’s kinda refreshing & a little different. Lots of morally grey characters. And it stays with you!
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That’s great to know! I spied the hb in Blackwells the other day and had to resist (only because I had no space in my bag and it’s a biggun)
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