There’s a nefarious mayoral candidate running with the slogan “Make New York Great Again!” A nasty organized group of violence bros are called the Proud Men. The most obvious examples of this, for me, are the human political villains. There are multiple tense and exciting action sequences.īut a couple of things are just a bit off. The avatars have all come into their powers, with an idea of what’s going on. The eclectic city avatars are all back, and a few, like Manhattan and Queens, are fleshed out significantly. It has much of the same feel, the same sass. If you liked The City We Became you’ll like The World We Make. You can join our book club over on Patreon. Trigger/content warnings: Racism, Xenophobia, Violence, Police brutality, Deportation, Transphobia, Injury/injury detail I adore these characters, I love this world, and I'm smitten with N.K. This was a return to the campy, sharp-tongued commentary that I so loved in the first book, laced with humour and so profoundly relevant to the here and now. The World We Make is the second and final installment of the Great Cities duology, a gloriously weird SFF story of a group of seemingly random New Yorkers slammed together as they are transformed into the living avatars of their multifarious city just in time to fight for their very survival. She is an auto-buy author for me, and I haven't been disappointed yet! Jemisin's genius, and will read anything and everything she writes forevermore. In all seriousness, I bow down in awe of N.K. Jemisin has no fans, that means I'm dead. Jemisin has a million fans then I'm one of them. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology, which began with The City We Became and concludes with The World We Make, is a masterpiece of speculative fiction from one of the most important writers of her generation.

In order to defeat him, and the Enemy who holds his purse strings, the avatars will have to join together with the other Great Cities of the world in order to bring her down for good and protect their world from complete destruction. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and 'law and order' may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.Īll is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading-and destroying the entire universe in the process-the mysterious capital 'E' Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K.

The city we became