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If I had to describe N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in one word it would be epic. Yeine is a character that I was immediately drawn to. She comes from a matriarchal society (which I really wanted to know more about) and is pulled into this game of musical heirs by her grandfather. Dekarta Arameri disowned his daughter the moment she chose to marry a Darre and Yeine is a constant reminder of this betrayal. Either Yeine or one of her cousins, Scimina and Relad, will inherit the throne and death surely awaits those who aren’t successful. Scimina is ferocious, she has no qualms about doing whatever it takes to be Dekarta’s successor and neither her brother nor her newly arrived cousin will stand in her way. We don’t learn much about Relad, but he isn’t above making deals under the table to insure his survival. Just as important as the human players in this story are the mercurial gods who once ruled the world with astounding power, but who have now been imprisoned by one of their own. Caged in human form by day and forced to obey the whims of the ruling Arameri family, the Enefadeh can be either friend or foe to Yeine, but they are also keeping close a secret that will shake the very foundation of Yeine’s world. Among these is the dangerous, yet intriguing Nahadoth, who Yeine cannot help but be drawn to. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms masterfully weaves issues of colonialism, racism, and political intrigue into a fantasy setting that excites the imagination with every page turned.


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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Inheritance Trilogy N K Jemisin 9780316043922 Books Reviews

I loved this book. Not for its astoundingly original plot (I mostly guessed the twists) but for its beautiful and rich world that decidedly manages not to fall into the "All fantasy lands are european medieval serfdoms" trope. I love that the place doesn't feel like spackled over European history through rose eyed glasses, instead it uses a different structure. I want so say it "feels" vaguely like some northern african structures I've read but I'm too rusty at those mythologies to point to a reason why. Anyway, I like it and it's not a common world feel, something I always value.

I also like that the main protagonist manages to finish the book while... she defies the role that is set out for her but she does not have to violate her own culture's views of what it means to be a woman in order to do so (incidentally, that includes being a strong and vicious warrior, though that's not the aspect she uses). It's rare to find a book that manages to let a female protagonist neither be a "female rebel in a man's world" nor save the day with her "magic uterus." Which is all to say, I like Yeine as a heroine. She is strong, she is feminine, she is clever, she has weaknesses, she has strengths.

I will likely pick up the next one.
I've been meaning to try N.K. Jenison for awhile now and I finally settled on this series. I'm so glad I did. I really loved the characters, right from the start. Her writing style is different, a lot of switching things up, flashbacks, lose ends, etc. But she ties it up extremely well at the end. I look forward to the next book.
I just spent oodles of time reading this 400 + 400 + 600 page trilogy over the last week or so.

I *really* loved book 1 (and had read it earlier). It is political (not in our world, but in theirs) which is an unusual element in the YA books I read and I liked what the author did with it.

I didn't so much care for books 2 & 3 but I got really invested in the characters and besides, I'd already purchased all 3 and so I wanted to complete the set. Books 2 & 3 were OK, book 1 I really liked.

The author has a way of not specifying exactly *who* is speaking for, sometimes, quite a long time. Which god is it? Which mortal is it? In book 1 I found that intriguing but it seemed to me less so in books 2 & 3.
Yeine is summoned to the majestic palace of Sky by her ailing grandfather, Lord Dekarta, as one of the potential heirs to the throne of the world's mightiest family, the Arameri. However, with an outcast mother, a barbarian father and her half-caste lineage frowned upon in the court, Yeine suspects this only to be a pretext for a much more sinister agenda.

She is soon proven right the Arameri plan to only use her as cannon-fodder in the succession ceremony, a sacrifice she is prepared to make if it will mean the survival or her simple, yet immensely brave people, the matriarchal Darre. As she starts a precarious relationship with unpredictable captive god Nahadoth, sentenced to serve the Arameri after losing a war against his brother, Itempas, and as she gradually learns her way around the Machiavellian politics of the palace, Yeine may, after all, turn out to have a couple of tricks up her sleeve as well as a fleeting chance to survive the dynastic struggle.

Being Nora Jemisin's debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms does have some teething trouble, yet also shows more than just an inkling of her immense potential. The biggest strengths of the novel are its tightly-woven, involving plot and an immensely original theology and cosmology.

The origin of the world and the depiction of its deities are a good enough reason to read the book alone. Gone is the clichéd Abrahamic dualism of good and evil, of God and Satan. The opposition here is between light and darkness Itempas is the god of day and order, Nahadoth of night and chaos. Neither of them is immanently good or evil (both of them demonstrate to be quite capable of both throughout the novel actually), they are quite simply different. The third major deity, Enefa, is, in turn, a goddess of all transitional states between the two, i.e. dawn and twilight, creation and destruction, life, but also death. Also of note is that the first god to come to being was Nahadoth, i.e. night and chaos predate day and order (which is also very logical when you think of it).

The world-building and writing are several notches down from the standards set by The Broken Earth, but are still extraordinarily good for a debut novel. The style is straightforward and unadorned, while the plot is a breathless roller coaster of twists and turns, with strong sexual undertones and cut-throat politics that can make House of Cards pale in comparison. The characters and, in particular, Yeine are extremely full-blooded and engaging, and the deities themselves are immensely interesting, even if not necessarily likeable. There are plenty of sexual allusions and scenes throughout the book, which are all rather explicit, but this ties in very well with the characters and the idiosyncratic theology. I am convinced the book would have suffered in their absence.

Finally a word about the other two instalments Even if The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is part of a trilogy, all three instalments are rather self-contained, have different main characters, lack immediate connection and common conclusion and can be read more or less on their own. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the ‘gem’ in the trilogy, the sequels are readable, but hardly as involving or interesting.
If I had to describe N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in one word it would be epic. Yeine is a character that I was immediately drawn to. She comes from a matriarchal society (which I really wanted to know more about) and is pulled into this game of musical heirs by her grandfather. Dekarta Arameri disowned his daughter the moment she chose to marry a Darre and Yeine is a constant reminder of this betrayal. Either Yeine or one of her cousins, Scimina and Relad, will inherit the throne and death surely awaits those who aren’t successful. Scimina is ferocious, she has no qualms about doing whatever it takes to be Dekarta’s successor and neither her brother nor her newly arrived cousin will stand in her way. We don’t learn much about Relad, but he isn’t above making deals under the table to insure his survival. Just as important as the human players in this story are the mercurial gods who once ruled the world with astounding power, but who have now been imprisoned by one of their own. Caged in human form by day and forced to obey the whims of the ruling Arameri family, the Enefadeh can be either friend or foe to Yeine, but they are also keeping close a secret that will shake the very foundation of Yeine’s world. Among these is the dangerous, yet intriguing Nahadoth, who Yeine cannot help but be drawn to. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms masterfully weaves issues of colonialism, racism, and political intrigue into a fantasy setting that excites the imagination with every page turned.