City of Stairs (Spoilers)

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Peter Ahlstrom recommended the book City of Stairs a while ago, so while at Powell's, I picked it up. And I loved it. It's a great book, so I decided to start a Topic about it. Just for people to discuss they're favorite scenes, and such.

 

My Favorite scene was the River fight, and the subsequent escape from Hell. Sigurd is so Badchull.

 

The parts I reread the most were those discussing the Conflicting realities caused by the various Divinities. It makes me wonder what would happen if all the shards disappeared overnight.

[Kasimir he/him]

I loved it; the setting (the Eastern European motif is pretty awesome, as is the Indian motif applied to Saypur), the idea of 'what do we do in the shadow of really ugly pasts', on the level of nations. And of course, the death of gods. I especially enjoyed the scene where Olvos talks to Shara about the Kaj, because it was just so sad and chilling at the same time. And of course, there's the scene where Vohannes Votrov tries to distract Kolkan, and his confession...it was amazing, and really grabbed me because of how pertinent it was.

 

And no discussion of City of Stairs can be complete without the mention of the badchullness of Sigrud. Oh, Sigrud, the book wouldn't have been the same without him