#s a Chakraborty

[mossillustra]

invented motherism tbh

[mythology-void]

I need everyone to know about this perfect little man

[kweerkitten]

alizayd alizayd alizayd!!!! the man that you are!!!!

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: The Daevabad Trilogy

Author: S.A. Chakraborty

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2017

Genres: fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, mythology, romance

Blurb: Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th-century Cairo, she's a conwoman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by - palm readings, zars, healings - are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. However, when Nahri accidentally summons an equally shy, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. The warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass - a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering...and when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. Magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. Even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say to be careful what you wish for.

[raand0m]

The Daevabad characters as The Office GIFS

Nahri:

Alizayd:

Dara:

Muntadhir:

Zaynab:

Jamshid:

Manizheh:

Bonus:

Ali @ Muntadhir:

Muntadhir @ Dara:

Ali & Nahri with the no-touching policy: 😭🤧

(This is my best one yet, And THE MOST accurate so far! These characters are such Office memes lol)

[congeewithfairydust]

sighhhhhhh :/

[anxiouswizardart]

Alizayd Al Qahtani from the Daevabad Trilogy

[crabtrain]

I just read the adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi and it was GREAT, such a romp.

An antidote to every single book where rather than have a mom character, they kill her (moms are complicated/moms are hard to write/moms are more of a character development backstory than people with lives).

Amina is both SUCH A MOM and also very much her own protagonist on wild romps with the supernatural and medieval Indian Ocean pirates.

[bibliophilecats]

Currently reading: The River of Silver by S.A. Chakraborty

[dragonhoardofbooks]

Might have a new favourite author 🥰

[doricnsgray]

im halfway thru the adventures of amina al-sirafi... i need content and ppl to talk to abt it PLS

[emsprobablyreading]

When you peep in the tag for a book you've only half finished, and everyone seems to love the character you thought was boring and hate the character you were enjoying. I'm really wondering what kind of shit goes down in the next 200 pages 😭

[jasperslibrary]

Live-blogging into the void now that I’ve finally started City of Brass.

SPOILER WARNING (I’m only partway through book one though so not many)

Nahri had my heart from the very first scene. Amazing.

I’m so happy I have the wooden map from illumicrate for this book because I don’t have to keep flipping back to the one in the book every few pages.

I’m reminded how little sense of geography I have every time I start a new book. Oh X is east of Y and you told me this on page 2? Fantastic, I have forgotten by page 4 and have no concept of where I am now.

People are going to call Dara + Nahri enemies to lovers, aren’t they? Will I be pleasantly surprised and they’ll be lovers and THEN enemies (actual enemies, not just gruff with each other)?

That sounded snarky. I just dislike the overuse of enemies to lovers as a term when it doesn’t apply. No shade on the book at all- every page I have read has been perfection.

I called the illusion spell ages back and I love feeling self satisfied that I’m right.

I don’t know if Muntadhir is going to be a beacon of hope and die tragically, or if he’s going to horrifically betray all the characters I care about in some way, but I bet one of those things happen.

The creatures in this series are beautifully written. It’s apparent that there’s an entire background of world building taken from real world mythology, but I still have plenty of context to appreciate the book, and am now just hooked on reading more stories in this/a similar setting.

:)

[deiumjeito]

aesthetic | The Kingdom of Copper - S. A. Chakraborty

[raand0m]

Rereading Daevabad Trilogy might be the best thing i did this week. 😩

My love for Alizayd keeps growing after every chapter 😭 that man is, lethal goodness gracious.