The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Book 1 of the Inheritance Trilogy

N. K. Jemisin

Feb 2010 · The Inheritance Trilogy Book 1 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

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.

Also by N. K. Jemisin:
The Broken Earth trilogy
The Fifth Season
The Obelisk Gate
The Stone Sky

The Dreamblood Duology
The Killing Moon
The Shadowed Sun

Ratings and reviews

Great read. Thank you. Enjoyed 2nd as well. 3rd wish I'd skipped it - I got confused with all the characters, probably just me - however enjoyed the short story at the end. I loved Broken Earth, her most original work, I was devastated when I finished them. Loved it. I enjoyed Dreamblood but reminded me of stuff I read years ago.

It starts off promising complex political intrigue and just never delivers. Instead, you get a so-called “warrior” endlessly pining over a stereotypically dark and broody-yet-handsome god. Boring and predictable but readable if you switch your brain off for a couple of hours.

The title really intrigue me, after a few chapters i couldn't put it down! Only took me two days to read , something was always happening! Loved it!!!!!

About the author

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, for her Broken Earth trilogy. She is a MacArthur 2020 Genius Grant Fellow. Her work has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, and the first book in her current Great Cities series, The City We Became, is a New York Times bestseller. Among other critical work, she was formerly the speculative book reviewer at the New York Times. In her spare time she's a gamer and gardener, responsible for saving the world from Ozymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his destructive sidekick Magpie. Essays and fiction excerpts are available at nkjemisin.com.