The novel’s worldbuilding, in the form of infestations and the social response to it, is its big idea. The people who do this job are known as “Sweepers,” and their mortality rate can be high… These infestations, as they’re known, are extremely dangerous and require specialised knowledge and equipment to combat. They succeeded a little too well, creating something that can hatch from broken or empty magical amulets and that can consume everything in its path. Hundreds of years before the novel’s beginning, a colonised people tried to fight back against their colonisers by creating a weapon that ate magic. Liz Bourke at Tor.com summarized it nicely:Ĭity of Broken Magic sets itself in a secondary fantasy world where humans live huddled into well-defended cities. I liked the premise quite a bit - a city in which a understaffed bomb squad must deal with leathly deadly weapons left over from a long-forgotten war. I found Mirah Bolender’s debut novel City of Broken Magic waiting for me when I got home from the World Fantasy Convention last year.
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