Amy 
fantasy
This sequel picked up where the last novel left off in the prologue and then jumped to five years later in the first chapter.
I won the audiobook of The Kingdom of Copper. I had
enjoyed the story and adventure in the first novel in the series, City of Brass.
Like the first novel, this installment is a great adventure full of
creative creatures and situations. S. A. Chakraborty corrected the writing shortcomings I had noted in the first installment. However, all
the cruelty and hatred between the different peoples in and around Daevabad grew
tiresome. All the religious fanaticism,
the royal superiority, and the backstabbing was frustrating. Plus it was a long novel and started to lose
me in the middle. Too much politics and not enough escapism. But it rallied in the end and I couldn’t put
it down. I found myself really being
touched by some of the relationships, too, once some people started acting like
they “should” instead of being ugly towards each other like they had been
almost the entire novel. So, I’ll give
it an extra half-star and have high hopes for the conclusion of the trilogy.
The narrator, Soneela Nankani, did a good job overall. However, she leaned a little bit into the
melodramatic territory sounding overly sad/concerned in situations that weren’t
that dire or when, I feel, she should have sounded tougher. Other than that, her voice acting was good
and she was able to differentiate some voices. I give her a B.
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