Books like The City of Brass
Nahri, a young con artist in eighteenth-century Cairo who does not believe in magic, accidentally summons Dara, a fierce djinn warrior, during a fake exorcism and is swept off to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, and its feuding royal court.
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The Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.
Elantris
A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.
Black Sun
In the holy city of Tova, as the winter solstice nears, Naranpa, a sun priest of humble birth, faces enemies within her own order, while the ship captain Xiala carries Serapio, a blind young man with a terrible purpose, across the sea towards the city.
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Queen Sabran of Inys must marry and bear an heir to keep an ancient evil chained, while Ead, a secret mage placed at her court, guards her, and across the sea Tané trains to ride the dragons the West has learned to fear.
Blood Song
A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.
Furies of Calderon
In Alera, a realm modelled on Rome where nearly everyone commands elemental spirits called furies, Tavi, a fifteen-year-old shepherd with no furycrafting at all, is caught up in a plot against the First Lord as a horde of Marat threatens his valley.
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
In the Elder Isles, before King Arthur's day, King Casmir of Lyonesse schemes for the throne of all the islands, and shuts his daughter Suldrun in a wild garden when she refuses the marriage he arranges.
Assassin's Apprentice
A six-year-old royal bastard left at Buckkeep Castle is raised in the stables and secretly trained by the king's assassin while he discovers two forbidden magics, the Skill and the Wit.
Three Dark Crowns
On the island of Fennbirn, every generation of queens is born as triplets, each with a different gift, and when they turn sixteen they must fight to the death for the crown: Mirabella the elemental, Katharine the poisoner and Arsinoe the naturalist.
Warbreaker
A warrior princess and an immortal scholar clash and ally in a standalone fantasy about colour-based magic and political intrigue.
The Jasmine Throne
Malini, a princess exiled by her brother the emperor to a ruined temple to repent, is waited on by Priya, a maidservant hiding the powers she was born with, as a rot spreads through the land.
The Curse of Chalion
Cazaril, a former courtier broken by years as a galley slave, limps home to Chalion, is made tutor to the royesse Iselle, and finds the royal house lies under a curse.