City of Miracles
core novel 2017 The Divine Cities
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.42 (17,007 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 451 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553419733 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
City of Miracles is the third novel of Robert Jackson Bennett's Divine Cities trilogy, following the earlier Bulikov investigation of Shara Komayd and the northern mission of Turyin Mulaghesh in City of Blades. Sigrud je Harkvaldsson, once Shara's fiercely loyal bodyguard, has spent recent years in quiet isolation, working as a lumberjack far from the political world he used to inhabit. That solitude ends when he learns that Shara, now a former prime minister, has been killed in a bombing. Driven by grief and a desire for vengeance, Sigrud sets out to find those responsible, only to discover that Shara had been quietly investigating dangerous secrets involving the world's fallen gods, secrets that draw him back into the same struggle over divine power that shaped the earlier books of the trilogy.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Divine Cities
- Series: The Divine Cities core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel (reader poll)), 2018: finalist; Locus reader poll placement: 9th place.
- Hugo Award (Best Series), 2018: nominated; Series-level nomination for The Divine Cities as a whole.
Notes
- From the series record (The Divine Cities): Core Canon = all 3 novels of the completed trilogy (Broadway Books, 2014-2017). No companion/Expanded Canon material found (no novellas, no short fiction set in this world) -- the trilogy is the complete work. First-edition dates per Wikipedia's own per-book articles, cross-checked against sfadb's Locus poll year attributions (each book's poll year is the year after its publication year, consistent with all three dates).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Divine Cities: position 3 of 3: previous City of Blades (2016)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Divine Cities
- Wikipedia: City of Stairs
- Wikipedia: City of Blades
- sfadb: Robert Jackson Bennett
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