City of Lies

City of Lies

2018 • 560 pages

Ratings16

Average rating3.3

15

A fun escape when I needed a fantasy book to dive into, with much political intrigue (just the way I like it) and thriller elements. The two main characters were coded as having OCD and chronic illness respectively, and I can't speak to whether or not the depictions were accurate. The world building was interesting and had some more-explicit-than-most-fantasy-books critiques of colonialism and the mistreatment of indigenous peoples, but the message became heavy handed quickly, and the allegory of the Darfri as an indigenous people felt a bit stereotypical at times.

May 18, 2022