The City in Glass
In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.
An NPR Best Book of the Year | An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pick
A demon. An angel. A city.
The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.
And then the angels come, and the city falls.
Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.
Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.
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I really struggled to get through this book. It felt like more of an aimless trudge through a story rather than a coherent tale.
When I got to the acknowledgments at the end and the author states ‘thanks to my publisher for not immediately firing me when I pitched this idea as -“have you ever wanted to fuck a library?”
What? The? Hell?
There is absolutely NOTHING relating to that in the entire book, BUT it really explained why the book was so bad if THAT was the premise she was building from?
Honestly the only reason i finished this book, was I got stuck Rage reading it and needed to know if it got better or had a point.
It doesn’t.
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