CITY OF MIRACLES by Robert Jackson Bennett

[SFFWorld]

To all things an end, and so it is with Robert Jackson Bennett’s marvelous Divine Cities trilogy. Over the course of the two novels preceding City of Miracles, Bennett took the spirit of epic fantasy and fashioned unexpected and wondrous novels. Turning the lens of his story on a supporting character and reader favorite in…

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[phil_geo]

Wow, I have only read the first bookin this trilogy, but in reading your review for book 3 I'm floored. I can't think of another trilogy where the main character is killed and the side-kick promoted to main character. Is this just an accident, where the author has written the side-kick too well and can't sell the intended main character? Or was this planned from the beginning?

 

[Contrarius]

Or was this planned from the beginning?

I'm pretty sure it was planned. Book 2 also makes a sidekick (a different one than book 3) into the MC, and in book 2 Our Hero from book 1 is already in lots of political trouble and mostly out of the main story line. So it's a natural progression.