City of Night
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- £3.99
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
In the poorest of the Hundred Holdings, men and women are disappearing. The Magisterial Guards, overworked, underpaid, and short-staffed, don’t seem to care—and why would they? This is where the dregs of the city reside.
It is also where Jewel and her den now make their home. In the years since she gathered her den, they’ve fended off starvation and homelessness by grace of their foraging in the Hidden City.
They believe that nothing lives in the depths of the Hidden City’s endless night.
They’re wrong, but they don’t know how wrong.
Rath does. The future of the Empire may be in the hands of Ararath of Handernesse, the lone man with access to Jewel’s talent and the archives of the Order of Knowledge. Against demons and ancient magics, he is only one man.
One very determined, very angry man.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Book two in Michelle West's House War series starts with Angel's quest to complete the mission of his exiled father, and then takes a sharp turn when he meets up with Jewel and her "den"-a self-chosen tribe of street urchins, precocious by necessity. Angel all but fades into the background for the rest of the book while we follow Jewel's efforts to feed her adopted charges and keep them safe even as the undercity where they scavenge for saleable goods becomes a source of supernatural danger. Then Old Rath, Jewel's sometime-mentor, takes center stage with his mission to kill demons and to expose their infiltration of the ranks of the powerful-something he can do only by dying and allowing an impersonator to try to fool his estranged sister, now the head of a powerful clan. He pulls off a posthumous coup to protect Jewel and her visions. West's point-of-view shifts are vertiginous. No doubt over the course of the series all these threads will intertwine, but new readers are likely to be feel frustrated by all the loose ends left hanging in the meantime.
