The City We Became

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N. K. Jemisin

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got six. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:The Inheritance TrilogyThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of GodsThe Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)Dreamblood DuologyThe Killing MoonThe Shadowed SunThe Dreamblood Duology (omnibus)The Broken EarthThe Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk GateThe Stone SkyHow Long 'til Black Future Month? (short story collection)

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Author

N. K. Jemisin

Pages

448

Publisher

Orbit

Published Date

2020-03-24

ISBN

0316509841 9780316509848

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"This was a very unique story! The characters were realistic with interesting personalities that created great dialogue. The conflict of the story was confusing at times, the writing a little too experimental for me to understand clearly. However once I got deeper into the book it became easier to read! "

Ghostie Gal

"What if your city had a human avatar? What traits would be embodied in this person to reflect your city? N. K. Jemisin takes this premise and gives us 5 avatars, each one representing one of the 5 boroughs of New York City. It's like she's written a love and a hate letter to her city and built a story around it. It's only April, but I suspect this book will be in my top 3 of 2020."

Wei Liu

"I feel like the grinch saying so but I did not like this. Bland writing style and stereotypical characters. NKJ should have saved herself the writing time and just made a blog post about how much she hates Staten Island."

Sarah Brown

"This was a wonderfully written story with amazing character development. "

Collette Deschamps

"If you haven’t read a book by NK Jemisin and listened to an audiobook narrated by Robin Miles—what the **** are you waiting for? This book is incredible, as all of NK Jemisin’s books are, but this audiobook production is so far above and beyond any other audiobook I’ve ever listened to. Robin Miles is already an extremely skilled narrator so paired with a production team and amazing sounds and special effects!! The City We Became is an absolute must listen to. I loved everything about it. NK Jemisin is so great at not only extensive and detailed world building in a sci-fi/fantasy, but also creating memorable, palpable characters that you get to know so well you feel as if you’ve always known them. Just listen to it already."

Reading into the Void

"I was really exited for this book, but sadly i couldn’t look past the way it was written. It was very confusing and hard to follow to me."

Israel Wesley

"I didn't like the start. It was too slow."

Izabella Lavictoire

"Definitely a weekend treat1"

Lyndsey Plyler

"Very fun sci-fi/urban fantasy about cities becoming sentient and chosing avatars. Delightful, though it didn't seem to resolve fully. Maybe a sequel?"

Rebecca McIntosh

"i loved the part where they all formed around the main city!!! and how jersey city joined them :) i also loved the ending with them at the beach! what about you? "

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