The City We Became

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Winner of Best Fantasy at the Audie Awards.

Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel.

Shortlisted for the Hugo Awards.

Nominated for the Nebula Awards.

Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times best-selling author N. K. Jemisin.

Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.

But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

©2020 N. K. Jemisin (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York." (Neil Gaiman on The City We Became)

"The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation...Jemisin seems able to do just about everything." (New York Times)

"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." (Entertainment Weekly)

Intertextual extravaganza

This is one book out a small handful of others, that made me laugh out in sheer joy more than once. Highly highly recommended.

A really cool concept but execution is lacking.

I loved her series so was pretty excited about this book and it was somewhat enjoyable but I really found quite a few points in the story very strange and overall confusing.

It was building up the tension and meandering for the whole book and then suddenly just deus ex and everything is good.

The Island character is really not believable at all (although I guess Trump supporters exist and I find this unbelievable as well).

The rest of the characters are barely any better.

I really don't like fiction where the ground rules are not set and then pretty much whenever there is a tight corner voila let's change the rules to fix the problem. I.e. give me an umbrella to play Don Quijote while riding a taxi...

The main issue really is lack of cohesion to the story, too many random things happening for practically no reason and the actual main plot points get very little "screen time".

Doesn't really connect with anyone not living in New York.

Very creative and delivery is on point! But the story doesn't create any empathy with the characters. Might connect better with Americans especially New Yorkers.

wonderful and amaizing!

This book is amazing I loved it so much! the story is incredible and well written and well narrated! Robin Miles does a great job and N.K. Jemisin has become one of my favorites! Will be looking what else she has! And the feeling of NY.. and it's people! loved it!

10 out of 5 stars

Favourite read of 2020 by far! Dynamic and interesting and wonderfully performed! Highly recommend reading!