Week 21 Review: The City in Glass

From Goodreads:

In this new standalone, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.

A demon. An angel. A city that burns at the heart of the world.

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 burn a world to ashes and build it anew.

My Review:
I absolutely loved reading this book! It sounded really fantastic, and I've really enjoyed her previous books. I had such a great time getting to know these characters and the world that they inhabit, and following along with this story!

This was such a beautiful and atmospheric book, with such well done writing of this story. I really enjoyed following along Vitrine and her angel, and this city that she loves so much. It hurt when the city was destroyed, it was great watching them rebuilt, and it was tense when it was threatened, and I loved reading it! 

Vitrine was an interesting character, and how much she came to inhabit Azril, to basically make it a part of her identity. And then there's the angel, who Vitrine injured, and thus can't go home, and they're basically stuck together, and I loved there interactions and dynamic, especially since it started off with the destruction of Azril! 

Oh, but that ending? That was so strange and weird, and I'm still not sure what to make of it, but it definitely fit with the oddness of the whole book. It's not a happy ending in the average sense, but it's a happy ending for these characters. 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Nghi Vo! 

Author: Nghi Vo
Read: May 19th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2024 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Tordotcom
Expected Publication: October 1st 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars