The City of Brass

I've been meaning to read this book for a while since the cover is so beautiful. It's nice that this book and its sequel both fit PopSugar prompts this year, so I can read them back to back! I haven't been doing that the last couple of years because I've been focusing more on the challenges than finishing series. My goal next year is to use as many books from the fewest series/by the fewest authors in as many prompts as I can.

I went into this book with no expectations, which hasn't happened lately. I'm glad that I listened to this book because there's no way I could have pronounced all of the Egyptian/Middle Eastern names/terms (without feeling guilty and a little offensive). This book is definitely one of the slower books I've read this year, while still having a captivating story.

I wasn't surprised by the twist in the epilogue, but maybe that's just because I read too many of these books