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The City We Became
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
Winner of Best Fantasy at the Audie Awards.
Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel.
Shortlisted for the Hugo Awards.
Nominated for the Nebula Awards.
Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times best-selling author N. K. Jemisin.
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.
Critic reviews
"A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York." (Neil Gaiman on The City We Became)
"The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation...Jemisin seems able to do just about everything." (New York Times)
"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." (Entertainment Weekly)
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- Abi Johnson
- 13-11-21
just excellent
I need more cities and their personhoods 🥺🥺🥺
it was just so incredibly good in every way
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-09-21
Amazing story, can't wait for the next one!
Best N. K. Jemisin yet, what a ride, makes me want to go back to NYC, despite the interdemetional threats in this book!
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- 06-03-23
Fantastic!
I don’t always love urban fantasy, but I loved this - just as I’ve loved everything else written by the amazing author.
The narrator was fantastic and at least to my uneducated British ear did a great job of bringing the different characters and their accents to life.
Can’t wait for credit day to get the sequel.
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- DaelRa
- 19-04-20
Not sure.
I've never really enjoyed any urban fantasy but love N.K. Jemisin so thought I'd give it a whirl. Unfortunately not even the mighty NKJ could persuade me otherwise. I found the characters a little stereotypical but then that was kind of the point so I can't really criticize there. Dunno, I just found the lack of nuance in any of it a bit disatisfying.
Mostly a very good range of vocal characterisations but a couple that didn't work for me. Have to say though that Robin Miles managed to make the characters instantly identifyable which most of the female narrators I've listened to find tricky so she gets two thumbs up for that.
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- marlon smith
- 01-11-20
Phf’k yeah!
Wicked. Wicked. Wicked.
This ambition and scale of this epic is breathtaking. The muscular flex of imagination was comparable to a Ms Universe contest. Oh, and the performance by Robin Miles is stunning.
The germ of this idea features in ‘How Long Til Black History Month’ (as available on Audible) and hearing it I was blown away. I then knew it was to be my first foray into Jemisin’s work. So check that out too.
N. K. Jemisin and Robin Miles are like Clark Kent and Superman, and if you understand the mythos you’ll get it. Great job ladies! ☝🏿
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-03-21
Brilliant.
Here N.K. Jemisin has wrapped up Neverwhere, Xenogenesis and American Gods into a narrative of becoming and elevates the under appreciated struggle of birthing. Robin Miles' narration brings New York and its avatars to life with warmth, meaningful expression and compassion. Through this masterful audio-literary work, I'm grateful to have been on this journey between worlds.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-09-20
One of my best audiobook experiences yet
It's a great story, but the performance and production are what make this one stand out. Every character's voice is distinct and the reading fits the text perfectly. Occasional audio effects make it even more immersive without overpowering the reading. I listen to a hell of a lot of audiobooks, and only a handful have truly stood out as listening experiences. This is one of the best.
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- susan
- 23-08-23
A little slow but a diverse cast & a great perform
The story took quite a while to get going (understandable with so many POV) but once it did the story was fun, clever & interesting & the audio performance was really good! 4.5 stars for story & 5 for performance
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- Lizzie Biscuits
- 06-04-21
Enjoyable and evocative. Superlative narration
I really enjoyed this book. So incredibly evocative of New York it made me want to book a holiday immediately. I imagine if you're a love of the place you would adore the book. It made me pine for one about my favourite city (Paris). The characters are well rounded, interesting (and pleasingly diverse). The story rattles along like a subway train, I suspect this is one I'll want to revisit in a few years too. Special mention for the OUTSTANDING narration, easily one of the best read audiobooks I've ever listened to.
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- Mr. O. Tamir
- 01-04-20
New Yorkers will love it. Others, not so much.
Unlike any other Jemisin book I've read to date, this one was a struggle. The major twists & reveals are few and far between, and they don't redeem the plot at large. I had very high hopes from this book, and sadly none of those were vindicated at the end if the read. Still, the prose is top notch, Robin Miles is very good, and some of the scenes transcend the general malaise that sinks this novel to just 3 stars. I'm sure many a Jemisin fan will enjoy this one, and many New Yorkers will adore it. But this stab at a "Great American Novel" - reduced to depict perhaps the country's greatest city and taken a not-often-enough weird trip through action, suspense and equal, skimpy measures of sci-fi and horror - robs Jemisin fans of what is perhaps her most distunguished forte: world building at a colossal scale.
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