Waiting on Wednesday | #37

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

It will be released on November 14th, 2017 by Harper Voyager.

I cannot wait for this book! It gets released a day before my birthday! I might get this as a birthday gift – maybe by someone or by me but either way, I’m going to get this book. The synopsis sounds so interesting! It is #OwnVoices and it is a historical fantasy set in the Middle East. 

The COVER! It is so gorgeous! I love the fire, the dark gold at the bottom (I wonder if it’ll be textured on the actual cover – that’d be outstanding), the mandala design, and the typography. It just works together very well. 

Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty — an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and One Thousand and One Nights, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts

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…

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