The City We Became

, #1

Hardcover, 437 pages

English language

Published April 6, 2020 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-356-51266-2
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Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.

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.

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"Die Realität ist nichts Binäres."

Diese Geschichte ist ein wilder Ritt durch die Stadtteile New Yorks, den ich sehr genossen habe. Unverhofft und ungefragt bekommen die WächterInnen die Aufgabe ihre Stadt zu verteidigen, die nicht nur der Gentrifizierung zum Opfer fällt und auch immer offener auftretende Rassismus sich wieder überall breit macht, sondern auch noch von einem gruseligen Tentakel-Wesen unterwandert wird. Die WächterInnen sind in ihrem Handeln und Denken RepräsentantInnen ihres jeweiligen Stadtteils was für großartige Reibereien sorgt, weil jeder Stadtteil sich für den relevantesten hält. Doch wie sich das für ein SuperheldInnen-Team gehört sind sie dazu gezwungen ihre eigenen Vorurteile und Ängste zu hinterfragen und zusammen zu arbeiten, wenn sie ihre Stadt retten wollen.

Am Anfang fiel es mir etwas schwer in die Geschichte zu kommen, weil die Lesenden lange Zeit im Unklaren darüber gelassen werden, was den WächterInnen hier eigentlich gerade widerfährt. Dadurch hatte ich beim Lesen häufiger dass Gefühl, dass ich …

Explosively creative & often funny.

New York comes alive, through six human avatars, but something in the multiverse isn't happy. Explosively creative & often funny. Shares a deep love for the city & its people. Clever use of identity politics and gentrification.

reviewed The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (Great Cities, #1)

Must Read Urban Fantasy

NK Jemisin is an incredibly good writer. This book makes me feel the injustice happening to these charters in such a strong way, that I have to take breaks. This book also celebrates black joy, and the important place various cultures have in our cities. This book feels like a victory lap, and after winning 3 straight Hugos, Jemisin continued on to show why she is one of the best writers of our time.

The City We Became by N.K. Jemison

Content warning Spoilers

reviewed The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (Great Cities, #1)

Review of 'The City We Became' on 'Goodreads'

The bad news first: it's not quite up to the standards set with the Broken Earth Trilogy. Followed by the good news: this is still an excellent start to Jemisin's new trilogy about living cities and I liked it a lot.

The prologue is the short story I already read in How Long Til Black Future Month, in which a young homeless man becomes the city of New York with the help of the embodiment of Sao Paulo, and defeats a threat. But the threat weakens New York, and so he needs the help of the five boroughs Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island to help him battle the Lovecraftian nemesis that is trying to take over New York. The embodied boroughs have to find each other and join up to find New York, and that's not as easy as it seems, as their foe does everything to stop …

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Urban Fantasy
  • Magic
  • Fiction
  • New York City
  • Multiverse