The Empire of Gold: 3 (Daevabad Trilogy)

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Whereas Dara is questioning what is morally right, and whether his actions at the behest of Manizheh are morally right, Ali and Nahri spend most of their time together, ignoring the fact that they have feelings for each other.

Empire of Gold is the pitch perfect conclusion to the expansive fantasy trilogy that has captured my heart and mind over the past few years. Dara admits that there is no such thing as justification, but there is the possibility of redemption, of changing paths no matter how far down into the darkness you have gone. Through the online content we publish, we share our opinions and thoughts on the various problems that the world is facing right now. The reserved, aloof and second youngest daughter of the chaebol founder and heiress to the business empire, she and Tae-joo get married, although they both don't love each other.However, he had had multiple opportunities to stand up to her when he was the more powerful one and he didn’t. The thing is, both have their pluses, both have their minuses and it gives a new meaning ‘to the grass always being greener’ – because maybe it isn’t. What a memorable tale of the stars, harrowing exploration and adventure, romance, friendship, and breathtaking mystery. So much anticipation to see how the series turns out, and it was no different with The Empire of Gold, last book of the Daevabad trilogy.

A richly imagined, stunningly immersive book that takes you into a world of darkly alluring djinn, terrifying monsters and beguiling magic. The denial that you will not read more about characters you love, characters whose adventures you have been. While this may be a world peopled with djinn, talking birds with swords, and an alligator god with an attachment to Ali, it’s also a world much like our own, where the back stories of entire peoples escalate from prejudice, to injustice, to violence, to a cycle that ever repeats the hatred. I understand the choices that were made, and why they were made, but with semi-heavy emphasis on character relationships – especially the ones between Nahri, Ali and Dara – I was kind of hoping for a little more. Nahri has played several roles in her life: Cairo street thief, companion of Darayavahoush, revered Nahid, wife of an emir, a healer, a survivor.Ali’s tale has been one of slowly loosening up, of learning that the world isn’t black or white but mostly gray. There’s quite a bit of focus on both Nahri and Ali discovering their heritage in this book, which was really great.

After their father dies, Tae-joo, along with his mother, raises his little sister Hee-joo on his own, and fights tooth and nail to rise to the top relying on his cunning wits. As the novel begins, Nahri and Ali have been swept away to Egypt, while Daevabad has fallen to Manizheh and her loyal enforcer, Dara.

It takes a long time for the real action to start and it feels like much of the beginning of the book, up till Ali and Nahri get to Ta Ntry is largely treading water. By the time that The Empire of Gold begins, it’s clear that he has some significant doubts about his mistress, who increasingly demonstrates that she’s not that much different from the tyrant that they have just overthrown.

I started by loving the misguided, broody, yet ultimately loyal Afshin in the first book, hating him for his betrayal (and the way he swept Manizheh’s horrors under the carpet) in the second, and having a strange love/hate relationship with him in this book. Robert Jackson Bennett’s excellent Divine Cities trilogy all had titles like this, as did the first two books in Chakraborty’s Daevabad trilogy before Empire.The rest of the supernatural world considers them monsters and they are, but they’re also so much more. Then it comes time for him to embrace his marid past he just becomes, I don’t know, self-sacrificing, annoying? Nahri’s parentage has been a long running thread throughout the series, and it was resolved in a really satisfying way here.