The City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy)

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Cool Airship: The Tukharistani djinn tribe fly enchanted sailing ships as part of their extensive trade network. ACTUALLY I feel like THE ISLAMIC aspect wasn’t EVEN NECESSARY to the story bc personally, it fell really flat and I can see how it would be confusing and maybe even counter-productive for people who aren’t well read in the faith. If it was just kept as a Middle Eastern rep, I probably would have liked it better. Now, please tell me if that doesn't sound like the kind of book you'd want to devour in a single day.

Dara's job as Afshin is to protect the Nahids. He and Nahri fall for each other during their trip to Daevabad. My art for Struthless' alphabet challenge, where every week I will be creating one art for one alphabet letter. I plan it to be mostly character's portraits. Language: English Words: 0 Chapters: 10/26 Comments: 12 Kudos: 13 Hits: 357 Luke, I Am Your Father: Nahri gets this from Manizheh. Though it turns out she was lying. She's actually Nahri's aunt, and also tried to kill Nahri as a baby.Laser-Guided Karma: Dara's excuse for his multiple war crimes is that as an Afshin, he is a weapon for the Nahid. In the third book, Manizheh re-enslaves him, making him the perfectly obedient weapon he'd always claimed to be. Nahri does this to herself as part of bluff against the peris. She is rewarded with Suleiman's seal and the power to literally reshape Daevabad.

The epilogue for the trilogy also reveals the Egyptian shafit working in the palace kitchens was Nahri's grandfather.

Hive Mind: Marids can share their feelings, thoughts, and memories with each other as though they are one entity because they are water-based creatures. Slave Market: During the second book, Ali is outraged and disgusted to find shafit being auctioned off in public under the paper-thin excuse of helping djinn find their shafit relatives. Good Powers, Bad People: The Nahids were immensely powerful healers, but they were utterly ruthless, brutally repressed the shafit, and conducted horrific medical experiments. Best exemplified by Manizheh, who uses her healing powers to create a horrific superweapon.

Altar Diplomacy: The marriage between Nahri and Muntandhir. Neither of them are the least bit interested in being married to each other, and Ghassan knows it, but he wants to create a symbolic link between his new dynasty and the Nahids they overthrew. With heart and exceptional—(though entirely unsurprising)—acuity, yet again Chakraborty raises the bar for the fantasy genre, this time by spiriting her readers into an epic, nautical world as rich as it is enchanting from start to finish.”The world building is so….complex it actually crossed over into the line of “complicated” and overshadows ANYTHING ELSE That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.'"

for This is for Bookworm45 for reminding me I had this idea floating around Fandoms: The Daevabad Trilogy - S. A. ChakrabortyMARID: Extremely powerful water elementals. Near mythical to the djinn, the marid haven’t been seen in centuries, though it’s rumored the lake surrounding Daevabad was once theirs. Deadly Scratch: The magical poison of zulfiqar swords is universally deadly and defeats even Nahid healing, so the Geziri fighting style emphasizes mobility and shallow slashes. At the end of Kingdom of Copper, Muntadhir is cut, but the Seal of Suleiman disables the magic before it can finish him off.