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I've finished: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett

After I finished A Drop of Corruption, I was looking for more Robert Jackson Bennett.

City of Stairs is similar enough to the Shadow of the Leviathan Series to feel very familiar yet not so similar you feel like your reading the same story in a different location.

This time the female is the lead, but she isn't infallible, and the male partner is an uncannily capable muscle.

Like in the Leviathan novels, The story begins with a murder investigation that then reveals more and more about the world, the gods, the old imperial power and the new. Neither political system is admirable but our heroine intends to try and change things for the better.

The premise is also quite unique, What if the rebels found a way to kill the empire's gods? What would an empire that has lost not only its gods but everything that was powered by their miracles look like after decades of occupation?

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I've finished: City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

General Mulaghesh, the grizzled veteran is at the center of this Divine Cities novel.

This one is about the horrors of war, and the harm it does to the perpetrators as well as the victims.

As ancient and modern warfare come to ahead, can the cycle of violence be broken?

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