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The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty. A fantasy set in the 18th century in the Middle East (involving djinn, daeva and ifrit etc.). It is a densely plotted story with a large cast and a lot of unfamiliar names for people, places and things, and so I found it a bit hard to keep track at first. But it was well told and held my interest, making it easy to push on until things started to come together for me. There is some romance here, a love triangle of sorts, but like the rest of the book it's not quite that simple. The first of a trilogy, this book wound up well enough feel complete, but also with much still unresolved. I really enjoyed this, a firm 4/5, so I have dived straight into the second.
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