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. io9.com Jemisins talent as a storyteller should make her one of the fantasy authors to watch in the coming years. And Jemisin has definitely done that here. The key is just to tell a great, exciting, engaging story that keeps you turning pages long past your bedtime. Romantic Times (4-1/2 Stars) Returning fans will especially appreciate certain details, but this novel stands on its own and is worth reading purely for its own strengths. Naomi Novik This is a book that readers wont be able to put down.A magnificent novel and one of the best books this reviewer has read this year. Ive got a special place in my heart for political intrigue, so this book was a delight through and through!-Cassandra Clare The very best kind of sequel: as lush and evocative and true as the first, with all the same sense of mystery, giving us the world and characters we already love, and yet with a new story and a wonderfully new perspective on the whole dazzling world and pantheon the author has built. Review Quotes In the first book of Jemisins richly detailed Inheritance trilogy, an outcast heroine must find a way to hold her own amid the treachery of her grandfathers court. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city.

This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Book Synopsis A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this strangers past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. About the Book In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind.

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