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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 1

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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

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

Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel.

Winner of the RT Reviewer's Choice Award.

Shortlisted for the Tiptree, the Crawford, the Nebula, the Hugo, the World Fantasy, the David Gemmell and the Goodreads Readers' Choice Awards.

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 - a palace above the clouds where gods' and mortals' lives are intertwined.

There, to her shock, Yeine is named one of the potential heirs 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 a pair of 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.

But it's not just mortals who have secrets worth hiding and Yeine will learn how perilous the world can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably.

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

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Yeine is named one of the potential heirs 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 a pair of 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. This is the book and trilogy that introduced me to Jemisin and her superb worldbuilding, characters, and exceptional writing. It can get confusing between the mortals and the Gods but stick with it. It will amaze you. I probably enjoyed it more the first time reading - listened to the audiobook 2nd reading and it was good not great. Narrator could be better. Still worthwhile.

Prefer reading this one to listening

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A woman finds herself stuck in the midst of devotees of Machiavelli and tries to make the best of it. I really enjoyed it.

A story of power and how it's wielded

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I really loved the story and also the choice of narrator. I found I liked it better played at .9 speed.

Loved it

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Author seems a little preoccupied with gods and sex. What did the protagonist actually achieve in this story?

Not sure what the point was

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Main character is a weak girl who has all her decisions made for her. Spends most of the book waiting for the dark god to make love with her. Boring boring boring.

Useless girl does nothing

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This isn’t good. In fact, it’s quite bad. The story is tired and been done before. The names are repetitive and there’s too many uses of “she released a breath she hasn’t realised she’s been holding”. I do dumps all over the place that show a poor writing skill, and we have this other worldly place but modern American terms like “bathroom”
“Pants” “tap” etc. , Won’t be reading any more of this rubbish. There are so many better, more talented fantasy writers out there. This definitely isn’t one of them.

Don’t know why this is popular.

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sloppy story telling with going from speaking in past and present tense in the same sentence really made getting into it hard on audiobook. her giving synopsis constantly of important info and even events she leads up to tell you what happened in oast tense instead of talking you through the event.. the only real time she looked like she put any effort into the storytelling was when the main character was either fantasizing or actually screwing the only other main character which spoiler is a a God.. Absolutely terrible book,if I didnt pay my credit for it and had nothing to listen to at work I wouldnt have finished it. her characters are lifeless and just honestly cant give it a worse review. This is coming from some one who has never put down a fantasy book. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME listen to Robin Hobb or Brandon Sanderson or someone half decent.

can't believe she won the hugo award

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Very hard to get into. Writing style is not what I’m into for starters so bear in mind when choosing as you may not get through it. Story is a bit hard to follow.

Hard to get into

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I am the sort of person who always finishes a book but I could not finish this one. Very disappointed at the writing style. I think the story has potential but I got board waiting for anything to happen.

Not engaging

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