![]() Hm… are these books starting to sound waaay too similar? Actually – no. Initially, there seemed to be a lot of similarities between the two books – both narrators were young women isolated from any family ties both of them rapidly find themselves out of their depth, surrounded by a number of beings a whole lot more powerful and deadly than they are both possess more skills and resources than is immediately apparent. There’s more blurb, but as it moves into Spoiler territory I’m going to pass on it… Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on impulse – a decision she begins to doubt when she realises there are hidden depths and powers at work in him. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. ![]() So in The Broken Kingdoms, does Jemisin manage to sustain that special ‘X’ factor? It’s a sign that a genre is very much alive and kicking when authors tweak the conventions to offer something original and appealing – and that’s what A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms did for epic Fantasy. ![]() The first book in this trilogy, A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, created quite a stir. ![]()
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