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Apr. 20th, 2020 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ezekielsdaughter
The City We Became by N.K. JemisinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
There are some reviews where I might write "once this got going". In true, this book "got going" from the very beginning. I read it in the space of two days, putting it aside on a Saturday night at 2 am and finishing it on 6 pm on Sunday.
The book describes the embodiment of the city of New York in five people and a sixth who represents the entire city. They must band together to protect their city from a Lovecraft-like horror that sometimes represents itself as gentrification. If you live in a city that has threatened culture (New Orleans, Austin) then you will recognize and perhaps grimly smile at the image of a Starbucks attacking our heroes as they race to save Staten Island.
The book is both exciting and satricial, I look forward to reading what comes next.
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