Boutros Saba-Norton’s Reviews > City of Saints and Madmen > Status Update
Boutros Saba-Norton
is 14% done
This book is really making me understand how this genre is meant to create discomfort in the reader, but I think it’s also meant to force you to think about things in ways you’re not used to.
It could be easy to dismiss the main character as nothing more than a deeply troubled incel w/ narcissistic traits, and he is that, but he’s also a deeply traumatised and hurt young man who started as a product of neglect.
— Jan 09, 2026 08:24AM
It could be easy to dismiss the main character as nothing more than a deeply troubled incel w/ narcissistic traits, and he is that, but he’s also a deeply traumatised and hurt young man who started as a product of neglect.
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Boutros Saba-Norton
is 45% done
As much as I felt myself being almost turned off from the genre by starting with “Dradin in love” the first novella to be a part of this book, reaching the 2nd part of the book, a comical history of ambergris, only comical from the irreverence of the historian recording it, has made this a very enjoyable so far. Combined with the other book I’ve read in the genre, I am starting to really enjoy its strangeness.
— Jan 13, 2026 11:34PM
Boutros Saba-Norton
is 2% done
Normally wouldn’t update progress this quickly, but this is definitely weird fiction. The main character so far sounds to be definitely deranged in a particular way that I feel like I’ve seen before. A person that can convince themselves that any stray thought that pops into their mind is somehow correct. He reminds me a bit of the villain from the golem and the genie.
— Jan 02, 2026 01:39AM
