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The Broken Kingdoms

The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 2

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The Broken Kingdoms

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman
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The debut series from the double Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season.

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight.

However, this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger - but is it him the killers want, or Oree? And is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?

The Inheritance Trilogy begins with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, continues in The Broken Kingdoms and concludes in The Kingdom of Gods.

©2010 N. K. Jemisin (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Royalty

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"Lush and evocative." (Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted)
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In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic, and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. Who is this man? Someone is killing godlings but who? What is Oree's power and where is it from? Jemisin is a true artist - her stories deliver on so many levels. This is fantasy at its best. She will break your heart and you will keep coming back for more. I loved this book. I enjoy everything she writes but this is a good trilogy.
Re read- or rather listened to this one - and I must say I prefer reading it to listening as the narrator wasn't great. However, I did enjoy it more than book 1 and think this is a fantastic middle book for a great trilogy. Edge of your seat kind of stuff!

GREAT book okay narration

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