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A review by cleolindbooks
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
dark
emotional
fast-paced
4.0
Thank you so much for the advanced readers copy! I received a copy to read and review, but all opinions and thoughts are my own🖤
What is it love and hate the cycle of death and resurrection? Can destruction itself ever be loved?
Beautiful, tragic, and soul wrenching. This was the first book I have read by Nghi Vo and I am stunned by the beauty and pain woven throughout the story. She manages to capture the unknowable grief only an immortal and unknowable being could possibly feel.
This book is in love story not only between an Angel and a demon, but between a demon and her city. As the city is destroyed and reborn and destroyed and reborn, with the reader, see the cycle that time has. That the growth transformation and death are all a part of the world regardless of the grief and pain it inspires.
This is unbelievably beautifully written book, but I’m not gonna lie, I don’t think I’m smart enough to understand the ending. I was utterly captivated from the moment I started this book. The prose is eloquent and poetic. The characters are both somehow human and other worldly. I felt so much of humanity reflected in them while also seen this unknowable pain.
What is it love and hate the cycle of death and resurrection? Can destruction itself ever be loved?
Beautiful, tragic, and soul wrenching. This was the first book I have read by Nghi Vo and I am stunned by the beauty and pain woven throughout the story. She manages to capture the unknowable grief only an immortal and unknowable being could possibly feel.
This book is in love story not only between an Angel and a demon, but between a demon and her city. As the city is destroyed and reborn and destroyed and reborn, with the reader, see the cycle that time has. That the growth transformation and death are all a part of the world regardless of the grief and pain it inspires.
This is unbelievably beautifully written book, but I’m not gonna lie, I don’t think I’m smart enough to understand the ending. I was utterly captivated from the moment I started this book. The prose is eloquent and poetic. The characters are both somehow human and other worldly. I felt so much of humanity reflected in them while also seen this unknowable pain.