The City in Glass
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A demon. An angel. A city.
The demon Vitrine―immortal, powerful, and capricious―loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.
And then the angels come, and the city falls.
Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost―and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.
Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.
The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to reduce a world to ashes and remake it anew.
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I started this, but I have a hard time with mythological characters (same with elves, interestingly, it's annoying to me that they don't have human foibles), so I moved on to something else. It might be a very good book, just wasn't for me at a particular time.
I love Nghi Vo's writing. I love the poetic style. I really love the beginning of this book. But then it fell into a slow groove of more vibes than plot which isn't a bad thing in itself, but 200+ pages suddenly felt like a lot more than 200 pages should. This is also the most obscure enemy to lovers trope I've ever read and I'm not really into being caught in a vibe of constant one-sided power play.
So this one Vo title is not for me, but I'm sure a lot of people will cherish it like Vo's writing deserves.
There isn't a single Nghi Vo book that I've read that I didn't enjoy.
This book had my emotions all over the place. I was angry, sad, joyful, excited for each new development for the city of Azril and to see how everything moved along.
I enjoyed that we saw more of the past at the beginning but as the city grew we got less memories and more of new developments.
The main character, Vitrine was really intriguing and seeing how she viewed her city and its people was fascinating. She loved them but that didn't mean she tried to shield them from everything, she let them grow on their own.
Overall this was another great read from Nghi Vo and she will continue to be one of my insta-buy authors.
