S. A. Chakraborty
Auteur de The City of Brass
A propos de l'auteur
S. A. Chakraborty is an American speculative fiction writer, born and raised in New Jersey. She is a college graduate and currently lives in Queens, New York with her family. Beyond writing, she enjoys history, politics and Islamic art. She is the author of The Daevabad Trilogy. It includes her afficher plus debut novel, The City of Brass, and the second book, The Kingdom of Copper. The third book in the trilogy will be The Empire of Gold. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo credit: Melissa C. Beckman
Séries
Œuvres de S. A. Chakraborty
Extra Scenes 12 exemplaires
Untitled (Amina al-Sirafi, #2) 8 exemplaires
Untitled (Amina al-Sirafi, #3) 5 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of The Empire Strikes Back (2020) — Contributeur — 353 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Chakraborty, Shannon A.
- Date de naissance
- 1985-12-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Matawan, New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Queens, New York, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Études
- American University (BA|2008)
- Professions
- writer
- Agent
- Jennifer Azantian (Azantian Literary Agency)
Membres
Critiques
A light-hearted romp, which reads a bit as if Mary Read (or Ann Bonney) took the lead role in a Harryhausen-inspired version of Sinbad.
The eponymous heroine is a Yemeni smuggler retired from the sea who is blackmailed by a rich woman into recovering her grand-daughter. Her father just happened to be part of Amina's crew before his death, and Amina felt guilty enough at his death to accept the job (the money for doing so didn't hurt either). Based on the Indian ocean trade routes, the story rattled along, and was reasonably historically accurate.
I liked this much better than The City of Brass (which disappointed me enough and so far has not inspired me to read the others in the series).
Light, but recommended.… (plus d'informations)
The eponymous heroine is a Yemeni smuggler retired from the sea who is blackmailed by a rich woman into recovering her grand-daughter. Her father just happened to be part of Amina's crew before his death, and Amina felt guilty enough at his death to accept the job (the money for doing so didn't hurt either). Based on the Indian ocean trade routes, the story rattled along, and was reasonably historically accurate.
I liked this much better than The City of Brass (which disappointed me enough and so far has not inspired me to read the others in the series).
Light, but recommended.… (plus d'informations)
This is a fun read. I appreciated the authenticity of the setting, it was unusual to read something deliberately set about 1200 years ago. There is a ton of action and fascinating magic to this and the main character is engaging and interesting. While this is essentially a standard fantasy story, there were a lot of unique elements and flavor.
A deeply satisfying conclusion to the epic trilogy. The heroes get the chance to make interesting, important choices, and so the "happy ending," while happy, is also complex and believable. Truly one of my favorite recent series.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 8,110
- Popularité
- #2,986
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 247
- ISBN
- 128
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 7
I hadn't come across anything in this genre, so it's quite welcome. It's like an Islamic (magical djinn) Harry Potter story, but not. The plot is completely different, it is only in how it pulls you in to an entirely new and intricate world that it is similar. As with Harry Potter, for those who know the myths, legends, and folklore, the stories are based on, the construct probably isn't *as* entirely new as it seems to one with far less exposure, like me.
The inspiration to listen to this well narrated (Soneela Nankani) book was actually the very attractive book cover of the 2nd in the series, "The Kingdom of Copper". (Who says you shouldn't judge a book by its cover?) I'd coveted it upon seeing it in Barnes and Noble, so snatched it up when my favorite Friends of the Library bookshop was selling it for $8.00. BUT, you can't read the 2nd book of a series without having first read the first, so I downloaded the audio from Overdrive.
Now I can dig out that beautifully covered Book 2 from my tower of "please read me NOW" books next to my bed and find out what happens next!… (plus d'informations)