Book 23 - Five Stars Forever

Title: City of Miracles (Divine Cities Book #3)

Author: Robert Jackson Bennett

Genre: Fantasy

THESE

GOD

DAMN

BOOOOOKS.

How does Bennett (and Rothfuss and Rowling and Martin and all of these mad people with intricate, book-spanning mysteries) plan all this crap? Not only does this book have its own cast of new and achingly wonderful characters, but Bennett also takes us on a tour of the others we've grown to know and root for (and, sometimes, against) in the preceding two books. In addition (and this might be the VERY best part), each new book is an exploration of a new world that couldn't exists and is explicitly shaped by the events and outcomes of the previous novels. I get some serious Avatar (the Last Airbender, not that other one) vibes in this regard - mysteries within mysteries, and shockwaves from the past continuing to cause their own brand of mischief.

So, anyways, this book: an excellent end to the series. A few chapters in and the reader is already hooked, nay, deeply gauged, by the mysteries afoot. As with the other two in the series, this installment is told from a new but not unfamiliar perspective, and the wear and tear of the sum of the events is beginning to chip away at him. Sigrud is weary. He also spends a lot of the book befuddled and majorly out of his depths, which is entirely endearing - I loved being confused right there next to him, especially as he grows even more as a character in the arms of the supporting but no less fantastic female cast.

Rating: 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓