The City We Became

 

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed Jemisin's The Fifth Season, but couldn't get traction on this one. It's a charming premise--a city is "born" and creates human avatars which, I guess, protect the city. New York is a bit different though--it has 5 avatars that must come together to wake the New York avatar to keep interdemensional demons at bay. Each avatar represents a borough of New York and epitomizes it. It's cute. The action scenes are pretty well done. There are some good bits especially when the avatars use their "abilities" to defeat the enemy. But there wasn't much depth to the story, in my opinion. I really like New York, but have never lived there, so maybe that's why? This one just was just ok in my book.

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