The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Book 1 (The Inheritance Trilogy, 1) - Softcover

N.K. Jemisin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316043915 ISBN 13: 9780316043915

Publisher: Orbit, 2010

Synopsis

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.
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.
The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of Gods
The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)
For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:
Dreamblood DuologyThe Killing MoonThe Shadowed Sun
The Broken Earth The Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk GateThe Stone Sky

About this title

About the Author

N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.

From AudioFile

Casaundra Freeman's clear, strong alto easily shifts pitches to accommodate the women, men, children, and gods who populate this fresh debut, the first volume in a trilogy. The warrior chieftain Yeine Darr must contend for the throne of the all-powerful Arameri, a role that no one, including Yeine herself, actually wants her to assume. Yeine is also embroiled in helping secure the freedom of the gods enslaved in the palace of Sky, and she must accept that both the plots of her enemies and those of her potential allies require her death. The author personally recorded all the unfamiliar names and terms in her novel, so the listener can be assured that they are being pronounced as she intended. A.B.G. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0316043915
• ISBN 13: 9780316043915
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432