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Gods are complicated things. More so in Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Stairs. Generations before the book opened, three of the Continent's divinities were killed. The weather changed. Geography shifted. Plagues came and decimated the population. Then their conquerors classified their history and banned any expression of their religions. The plan to eradicate even the memories of the divinities has not worked. So when Shara Komayd and her "secretary" Sigurd arrive in Bulikov, the City of Stairs, they're walking into a powder keg primed to blow...
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