The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
3.8
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N. K. Jemisin
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.
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Author
N. K. Jemisin
Pages
432
Publisher
Orbit
Published Date
2010-02-25
ISBN
0316075973 9780316075978
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I'm a fan of N. K. Jemisin found this book as lovely to read as all their others. It was just a bit hard to get into."
Lize
"N.K. Jemisin is such a talented writer, I seem to love everything of hers that I pick up. Lots of high level thinking to this plot, many stories to track, and it’s all just straight up riveting and the prose to back in up is beautiful. This is easily a top fantasy book for me and I’m looking forward to continuing the series."
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CaitVD
"NK Jemisin is officially my favorite author and I never thought I'd ever be able to say that definitively about any author. I first read the Broken Kingdoms (the second book in this series) because I didn't realize it was a trilogy. When I finished it though and discovered in the back of the book that there was more I couldn't have been more excited. I CONSUMED these books. The Inheritance Trilogy (which this is the last book of) is truly my favorite book series- really only rivaled by NK Jemisin's other series! Such vivid world creation. I love the way that every character is so real; so lovable yet so flawed. Could not recommend more highly!<3<3<3"
Reading into the Void
"Too slow, didn’t intrigue me fast enough. It was close, but no cigar."
Arielle Gavin
"5/26"
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JeLlana C
"Wow! This story was so different to what I’m use to! The only reason I did not give this books 5 stars was because the writing style thought beautiful could often be confusing."
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cjay
"It seemed all over the place, and the book read like a first draft. I wanted to love this book, but I could not get into it after 150 pages."
Madeline Heinle
"A very interesting and deep world, but a little slow moving and confusing in parts."
Ricki Marking-Camuto
"I love N.K. Jemison’s writing style, her world building, and her characters. Her MCs are portrayed as strong, intelligent, stubborn, and independent. They don’t meet the “beauty” standards of the world they are in, and so far in this series and in the Broken Earth series are described as dark-skinned women. I loved the Broken Earth series book one more than the Inheritance book 1, but really they should be two different genres. Broken Earth has so many sci-fi elements along with fantasy while Inheritance has more fantasy elements. Still a 5 star read, can’t wait to start book 2."
Audrey White
