Well, having drooled all over the first in this series, I didn't QUITE love it as much as the other, but the bar was set so high it would have been extremely hard to outdo my love for the first protagonist. I found myself feeling disloyal when I sided with this one occasionally, haha.This book was very good though, I was definitely engrossed (except for a section where I got impatient with the character's plight, I don't want to spoil but I think anyone who reads will know what I'm referring to)...

too much love is never a good thing. I have never been on such a roller coaster of a ride. My god. I think I left my heart in Sky.The story starts ten years after the events of the first book. The World Tree, a result of the finale of the first book (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms), is now a sprawling metropolis. All kinds of people and godlings have moved in. There is more integration. But with every attempt at multiculturalism, there is always a heretic group that seeks to "purify"

A rainy day, nothing really important I should be doing and a book by N.K. Jemisin. What more could I ask for?I loved the first book in this series and this one was just as good. The Broken Kingdoms revolves around a new character, Oree Shoth, but many characters from the first book play a part, mostly the gods. Much of the action takes place in Shadow the town beneath the World Tree.Oree is a blind artist who makes trinkets for sale in the market. Despite being blind she can see magic in anythi...

Not too much to say about this one. It didn't resonate with me and so I trodded behind the plot like a bored spectator that couldn't be bothered either to boo or to clap. The Broken Kingdoms takes place roughly ten years after the The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and is set in the same world. While it shares some of the characters, it is not so much a sequel as a companion novel. This time, however, instead of accompanying Nahadoth (and Sieh), we follow the footsteps of bright Itempas. The story it...

Well shit! I loved this one wayyyy more than the first!! This one rocked monkey butt!! 😃Happy Reading Peeps! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

In the city of Shadow, blind artist Oree makes a living selling trinkets in the local market. Her secret—that she can see magic—is hidden, but her secrets are about to be revealed when a godling is found murdered in the alley behind her stall. Everything points to Oree and her new, mysterious houseguest, but is it him the murderers want...or her?I enjoyed The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, but this one was even better!This picks up about ten or so years after Yeine unlocks her power, and deals with

And here I was just saying how book one hadn't been as devastating as other Jemisin works. Welp, eating my words a little here. Nom.I had a weird time with this book because while it was so different from book one, it was also great. Yet I had a hard time focusing on it despite that. Probably a me thing. Though there could've also been a bit of a middle lull. But I'm not shaving off any points because overall I'm so enjoying this story. And also because the last 15%? I devoured. And I was aforem...

3.75 StarsSo much better than the first book! I loved the characters and their development (even though I was sceptical in the beginning...) and the story was gripping with a more than satisfying ending. The start was a little slow but once the new characters were introduced the story developed beautifully.I still think the lore surrounding the Gods and Godlings is one of the best things about this series.

This review is from my reread of the book in October 2015.This was my favorite book of this trilogy when I initially read the series, and so far that continues to be the case. This is largely down to the main character, Oree Shoth, a blind artist who can see magic and perform some small acts of magic herself. In the Shadow of the World Tree of Sky magic and godlings are common, and Oree herself is friends with many of them. Her ex-lover is the God of Obligation. So she doesn't have any problems

I've thought a lot about why N.K. Jemisin's writing doesn't appeal as much to me as it should. Undoubtedly, The Broken Kingdoms was an infinitely better book than The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. You could almost see Jemisin grow as a writer and as a person, as the world becomes more vivid and more real to her than the scattered pieces of lore she inserted into the first book. The writing style and characterizations, too, felt smoother and more personal. All in all, The Broken Kingdoms was a bette...

So when I heard that the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was about a blind woman who could see magic and who was a painter . . .?. . . I made A Face. A blind woman who sees magic and paints. I mean, seriously, this is the disability equivalent of the magical negro, you guys, and my face was not impressed.After reading the book, I’m mostly puzzled. Because it was a pretty good book, full of win on several measures, and I just didn’t care all that much. It’s about a fallen god, but not abo...

This novel was easily and truly better, imho, than the first in the trilogy.From start to finish I loved the gentle rolling cadences of the story, the hope for a better life in the middle of so much poverty, even when it was the godlings and a certain shiny god that was experiencing the poverty. I originally thought this might actually turn out to be a mainline tale of redemption, and it was, for the most part, but I was even more surprised to enjoy the fact that it was a tale of demons, or the

What fascinated me with the first book in the series was how rich the world-building was for a series so short in pages. I love background on characters, history etc. Especially if this history is mainly on Gods created for a fictional universe. This one was a really descent follow-up, and like the first book I loved how fast-paced it was. N.K. Jemisin has a knack for narrating amazing stories with incredibly interesting and complex characters. She knows how to uncomplicate them too, though and

The Broken Kingdoms: Liked this better than the first bookOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureBased on The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate (the first two books in her BROKEN EARTH trilogy), N.K. Jemisin immediately became my favorite SFF author of this decade. Her DREAMBLOOD series was also very good, an original fantasy based on Egyptian and Nubian themes. However, as I was working backwards, I got to her earliest series last, the INHERITANCE trilogy. And in comparison, I thought The Hundr...

Original review posted on The Book SmugglersWarning: this review contains necessary spoilers for book 1 as well some minor spoilers for book 2. If you read book 1, you should be ok.The day I started reading The Broken Kingdoms was the day I did not go to bed at all. I’ve been really busy lately with Work and Real Life and my reading time has unfortunately suffered as a consequence: I always used to read till about midnight every day but these days this is a rare occurrence as I tend to kaput way...

This second book in The Inheritance Trilogy again shows Jemisin's skill in world building and flair for creating interesting characters.The main character in this book has a quiet and mature strength about her which is appealing, and continues to struggle with her own ideas of identity and independence in a very realistic way.

It is kind of unfair that I measure N. K. Jemisin's book against her other books - because this one was exceptionally brilliant as well, just not quite as awe-inspiring as The Fifth Season. So, for any other author this probably would have been a five star read as well, but I can't get myself to award them. I am absolutely, 100% in love with her writing and I cannot wait to read more book of hers. The next book in the series is already smiling at me from my night stand so I will probably not hav...

more compelling adventures in the second volume of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy. this one features a mortal trying to deal with a bunch of gods, a fanatical cult, and the slow shift in culture taking place on a mystical world. the novel is pure high fantasy, but in its popping pace, realistic-cynical perspective, often snappy dialogue, and Big City setting (as well as the polished but not particularly distinctive prose), it felt much like an urban fantasy novel rather than one taking place...

I really, really liked the first book in this series, but I loved this second book. It just got to me, man. The plot, the characters, the setting . . . hit me right in, like, three of my sweet spots.Spoilers for book one follow in this review. (You can actually read all three of these books separately, but you'll definitely get the most out of all of them if you read all three.)The Broken Kingdoms takes place ten years after The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and features a different set of main cha...

I barely know where to begin a review of this one. It's a much smaller tale than The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, with an extremely tight focus on our main character, the blind artist Oree. She's drawn to the transformed city of former-Sky, Shadow, now dominated by the World Tree. And in it, she practices an art more like magic and dallies with godlings. One, day, she finds a dead godling in the market place. From there, her associations, her magic, and her very nature take her into the investigat...