The World We Make
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Our view
In “The World We Make”, Jemisin moves the battle for New York into a mayoral election and keeps it tense and funny. The borough avatars now face a populist candidate bankrolled by their old enemy. Some readers feel closer to the characters this time and welcome answers the first Great Cities book left open. Others miss that book’s freshness and find this one clunkier.
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About the book
Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city’s heart and wields its magic. New York? She’s got six. But all is not well in the city that never sleeps. Though Brooklyn, Manny, Bronca, Venezia, Padmini, and Neek have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading–and destroying the entire universe in the process–the mysterious capital “E” Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and “law and order” may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside. In order to defeat him, and the Enemy who holds his purse strings, the avatars will have to join together with the other Great Cities of the world in order to bring her down for good and protect their world from complete destruction.
Reading order · Great Cities
Full order & progress →- The City Born Great
7.97.9 / 10 - The City We BecameStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The World We MakeThis book
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 149 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 50% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 149 | 100% |
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