The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance #1)

Published Nov. 21, 2010 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-04392-2
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OCLC Number:
667212972

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4 stars (9 reviews)

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. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress 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 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.With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.

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4 stars

Really interesting story in a fascinating world. Perhaps a bit too much going on at times as it's a world where everything is so strange and different it can be hard to keep up with what's happening and why. It's also solely told amongst the elite, and that leaves open a lot of questions about how this world works on the ground, but maybe the rest of the trilogy will cover that.

Review of 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

HAHAH this took me like 18 months to read and then i finished abt 2/3rds of it in 24 hours. p funny. anyway

3/5 which, on goodreads, means "i liked it" (which i did and do)
- interesting romance, decent smut
- nuanced discussions of colonialism, slavery, racism, etc, done in interesting ways
- jemisin's prose is, as ever, interesting and cool
- the worldbuilding was like.... mid. super mid. i found the names and people super confusing
- VERY young adult in tone. like, young adult with a side of p*rn, i guess
- so much stuff about like "Later I Would Understand" "In The Future" blah blah. also the ending was somewhat predictable, but in a kinda fun way

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