Not that it is explicit regarding violence (okay, a bit) or sexual content, but more because of its complexity. This book is Tara Sim’s adult debut and I would indeed not categorise this as Young Adult.

Logic, of course, but things like that do not make the life of a reader easier. For example, there’s an important festival that has different names in each of the realms. The worldbuilding is amazing, but I’m not convinced we needed this much details. While I was fascinated by the characters as of the beginning, I had some difficulty to get all the Gods, houses, realms, powers etc. You might have spotted it already, but this was not an easy story. It’s time for each of the heirs of the noble houses to decide: will they unite their forces to defeat the conjurers and open the realms, or should they continue to work individually to become next-in-line to the throne? Interesting but a tad complex Although the Gods seem to have turned their back on Vitae, their blood and magic lives on in the four noble houses: House Mardova, wielders of elemental magic and descendants of Deia House Cyr, descendants of Phos who can control light House Lastrider, shades and descendant of Nyx and House Vakara, necromancers who are descendants of Thana.Īs if things are not bad enough as they are, the city of Nexus suddenly finds itself confronted with rebels using forbidden magic to summon demons. Each year the portals between the realms remain shut, more of their world is dying. The City of Dusk takes place in a world abandoned by its old Gods. The City of Dusk Overview The City of Dusk

The Midnight Kingdom by Tara Sim