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The Divine Cities Trilogy
The Divine Cities Trilogy: City of Stairs, City of Blades, and City of Miracles, with an excerpt from Foundryside | Robert Jackson Bennett
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A special omnibus edition, collecting all three books of Robert Jackson Bennetts acclaimed Divine Cities trilogy in a single volume. In a world where terrifying, capricious gods once walked the earth, enslaving and brutalizing millions, three unforgettable protagonists struggle to come to terms with the mysteries these divinities left behind and to make sure these cruel masters do not rise again. In City of Stairs, an unassuming young woman named Shara Thivani arrives in Bulikov, the city that once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world. Officially, she is just another junior diplomat, dispatched by the citys new colonial masters; unofficially, she is one of her countrys most accomplished spies, on a mission to solve a murder. As she pursues the killer, she begins to suspect that the gods who once guarded Bulikov are not as dead as they seem, and that the citys cruel reign may begin anew. In City of Blades, General Turin Mulagheshfoul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov, rumored war criminal, ally of an embattled prime ministeris pressed into service one last time, investigating a terrifying discovery in the city of Voortyashtan, once the stronghold of the god of war and death. Voortyashtans god is most certainly dead, but something is awakening in the city. And someone is determined to make the world tremble at the citys awful power once again. In City of Miracles, the formidable, seemingly unkillable Sigrud je Harkvaldsson returns from self-imposed exile on a mission of revenge, only to find himself embroiled in a battle that may be beyond even his abilities to wina secret, decades-long war that will force him to confront the last mysteries of Bulikov, the city of miracles itself.
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WHAT A TREAT!!!! This trilogy is ABSOLUTELY GENIUS. Seriously one of the most complex worlds I‘ve entered, well built and innovative and surprising, filled with complicated characters and questions about existence itself without feeling navel gaze-y or smug. This is my favorite type of fantasy, where gods and magic are used to examine reality. If you need an escape that is thrilling and feeling and engaging and interesting, read this. 5👍🏼

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