The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #2)

by N. K. Jemisin

A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this stranger's past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it. . .

• ISBN10: 0316043958
• ISBN13: 9780316043953
• Publish Date: 1 September 2011 (first published 3 November 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 432
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Oree Shoth is blind to the mundane world but can see the magical, she's an artist and around her godlings play with humanity. Then she finds the body of a godling, dead. Only they're immortal and she's now caught up in a battle for lives and power.

This just blew me away, I was enwraped in it, enthralled and fascinated with the world and the people in it. Yes often there were hard decisions that had to be made but they felt right and it felt like real people doing real things. I so enjoyed this read.