The City We Become

 By: N.K. Jemisin

Location: FIC JEM

Genre: Urban fantasy, Sci Fi

Series: Great Cities #1

“This is the lesson: Great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn.” 

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.

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.

"The City We Became offers a fantastical exploration into New York in all of its glory through a speculative twist, and we see the good parts, the bad parts and everything in between. It’s not often that I encounter such a powerful book that follows familiar superhero-like themes like this one, but turns it on its head by using avatars of the city itself as its defender. It’s an ode to a city that only a resident could attempt to capture – and an immensely enjoyable read that taught me a lot." Jenn