The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms begins with an interesting combination of character and setting. For reasons I will get into in a minute, I suspect reading them all at once wasn’t merely unnecessary but even a little harmful. The three books share a setting, a few characters, and should definitely be read in the order published, but they really are self-contained. The Inheritance Trilogy is an example of the latter. There are trilogies that are really one story (the vast majority these days, it seems to me) and trilogies that are really what it says on the tin, three stories. This is one of those times where my all-at-once approach came back to bite me.

As is my custom, when I heard it was part of a trilogy I put it on my “to read” list, avoided synopses, and waited to read it until the trilogy was published so I could read it all at once. Jemisin’s debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, got great reviews and was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin Januat 1:44 am | Posted in 3 stars, Book Reviews, Fantasy | 1 Comment She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. The Inheritance Trilogy omnibus includes the novels: T he Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The Kingdom of Gods, and a brand new novella set in the same world: The Awakened Kingdom. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. After her mother's death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in this epic fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.

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