This month we're reading The City in Glass by Nghi Vo!

Synopsis: A demon. An angel. A city that burns at the heart of the world.

The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot.

And then the angels come, and the city falls.

Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.

She mourns her dead and rages against the angel she longs to destroy. Made to be each other’s devastation, angel and demon are destined for eternal battle. Instead, they find themselves locked in a devouring fascination that will change them both forever.

Together, they unearth the past of the lost city and begin to shape its future. But when war threatens Azril and everything they have built, Vitrine and her angel must decide whether they will let the city fall again.

The City in Glass is both a brilliantly constructed history and an epic love story, of death and resurrection, memory and transformation, redemption and desire strong enough to burn a world to ashes and build it anew.

Also a quick note: We debated on moving on from Discord because of it's latest announcement about requiring ID verification for age restricted content. I was pretty sure our server would be fine, but we still had a conversation about it in our last club meeting. For now Discord has postponed their ID policy thing after some pretty major backlash soo we're sticking to discord. But if we do move in the future, potentially we'll host meetings on Signal as they have a poll feature, chat feature, and video conference features similar to zoom or discord. If you're interested in joining the club but you're not on discord, there is also another way to participate, join on storygraph. The club has always existed there as well. But it's not the main space for discussion, mostly just for tracking. I lowkey forgot about it for January and February, but since the schedule for book club is basically set for the year, I'll update the title every month there as well. Here are the relevant links (note, you do need an account on storygraph to access the club):

Storygraph

Discord

See you at a future meeting or catch you on a forum discussion !