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The City We Became
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Winner of Best Fantasy at the Audie Awards.
Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel.
Shortlisted for the Hugo Awards.
Nominated for the Nebula Awards.
Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times best-selling author N. K. Jemisin.
Every 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 five.
But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
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"A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York." (Neil Gaiman on The City We Became)
"The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation...Jemisin seems able to do just about everything." (New York Times)
"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." (Entertainment Weekly)
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- R.L.
- 04/10/2020
State of the art, in writing and narration
This is the way horror/fantasy should be written: well developped, deep characters, REAL people that the book takes time to get us acquainted with. And, on the opposite end of the spectrum, stunning visual descriptions and unbridled imagination on par with Lovecraft.
Don't expect a fast "actioner". This books takes its time, as it should.
It is also pleasantly refreshing to read a book not written from the "white male" point of view. The social commentary that it entails is a much needed eye opener.
The narrator, Robin Miles, is simply in a league of her own. She is everything you dream of in a narrator. Her mastery of voices, accents, pure narration, inflection, even coughing and laughing, is unmatched.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Niklas
- 29/01/2023
Really original and fun
It takes a while for the book to get going. The concept is so strange and ridiculous. After the start it's really fun. Very different from her earlier works.
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- John
- 04/05/2022
A really cool concept but execution is lacking.
I loved her series so was pretty excited about this book and it was somewhat enjoyable but I really found quite a few points in the story very strange and overall confusing.
It was building up the tension and meandering for the whole book and then suddenly just deus ex and everything is good.
The Island character is really not believable at all (although I guess Trump supporters exist and I find this unbelievable as well).
The rest of the characters are barely any better.
I really don't like fiction where the ground rules are not set and then pretty much whenever there is a tight corner voila let's change the rules to fix the problem. I.e. give me an umbrella to play Don Quijote while riding a taxi...
The main issue really is lack of cohesion to the story, too many random things happening for practically no reason and the actual main plot points get very little "screen time".
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- Nicola
- 28/02/2022
wonderful and amaizing!
This book is amazing I loved it so much! the story is incredible and well written and well narrated! Robin Miles does a great job and N.K. Jemisin has become one of my favorites! Will be looking what else she has! And the feeling of NY.. and it's people! loved it!
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- Lassi*aL
- 05/02/2022
Challenging, slow, strange
Didn't make me care for New York.
Based on author's earlier work, I was expecting a novel concept. Book's got that all right. But the implementation isn't that great.
The book is so packed with today subcultaral references out which I'm only well infused Lovecraftian ones that I felt missing big chunks of the fascination from early on.
The audiobook performer is really professional but for me, in the whole, over does it and only amplifies my alienation. Great work still.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- Michael Flattery
- 10/06/2021
Brilliant, engaging and fun!
Eldritch horrors, interdimensional rap battles and a serious examination of manifestations of systemic opression both personal and abstract? What's not to love!
This book might seem terrifyingly prescient but it really is just a sign of how skilled Jemisin is at bringing worlds to life. This New York felt almost too real despite the surrealism and abstraction that overlays everything. Not a sappy love letter but something raw, honest and true from someone who nevertheless clearly loves the city a great deal.
The story fairly clips along. Despite having so much ground to cover it never feels like it's dragging. If anything it feels like it can be a little abrupt and could have used a little bit more room to breathe - particularly with one character (P.P.) - but as the first in the series it's not something that bothered me at all. There was maybe a little bit too much exposition but to paraphrase from the book "there's a lot of weird ****" and a sizable cast of POV characters with different perspectives, so it didn't grate.
Speaking of, the characters are great. For manifestations of archetypes they are very human with hopes and flaws and their own peculiarities. Some of the most fun superheroes I've ever had the pleasure to spend time with. Even when you want to give them a stern talking to. The prevalence of queer characters without their queerness being ancillary or all-consuming is wonderful to see as always.
And the performance by Robin Miles was amazing - as per usual. Though this audiobook does have some production elements (music, sound effects, voice manipulation) that are used sparingly but prominently. To me, it felt a little like listening to a really good one-woman radio play, but if that's not your jam then here's your warning. Should still read the book though, it's amazing.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 04/05/2021
AMAZING
The narration, the writing, the characters the plot everything came to life (ha see what I did there?) I loved it.
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- Candice
- 13/08/2020
10 out of 5 stars
Favourite read of 2020 by far! Dynamic and interesting and wonderfully performed! Highly recommend reading!
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- Eleonora Kapow
- 16/06/2020
Intertextual extravaganza
This is one book out a small handful of others, that made me laugh out in sheer joy more than once. Highly highly recommended.
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- asena german
- 22/08/2020
Fantastic
The struggle against gentrification and racism epitomized in a NYC-superhero story. A fantastic book! The narrator did an incredibly great job too.
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- Christian B.
- 16/11/2022
awesome speaker
The story is great - that has been written more often than I can count. But the speaker is exceptional! She really makes you want to listen to the end credits and legal notes (!!!) at the end of the audio book over and over again.
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- Anja
- 21/10/2022
Great ideas and great story!
I really loved this one.The story is great with so many creative ideas… truly original, never read anything like it, especially the impersonations of the parts of the city.
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- Jo Koppe
- 16/04/2022
Not her best, but still worth reading
I came with high expectations, having LOVED N.K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy. I was a bit disappointed at first with The City We Became because it just can’t quite live up to the earthshattering brilliance of The Fifth Season and its sequels… So it took me a while to get into it, but when I did, it was still a good read. Narrator Robin Miles: great as always. Probably it’s a more catching book if you have a strong relationship to NYC and the character of it’s different boroughs.
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