Shahar and the godling Sieh must face off against the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy, from Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. And in her heroine Yeine, she’s given us a refreshingly imperfect protagonist who is neither shrinking violet nor steely-eyed Amazon avenger.”- SF Reviewsīuy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms from Amazon She knows how to time each of her story’s juiciest reveals for best emotional impact. She has a truly impressive skill for taking a plot so labyrinthine it would make a minotaur dizzy and guiding us through it with satisfying clarity.

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. 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 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. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north.

Monster Complex uses Amazon affiliate links.Īfter 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. Huang, Nnedi Okorafor, Ray Bradbury, Moreħ5+ Urban Fantasy Writers Who Aren’t White Jemisin Ģ020 Hugo Awards: Arkady Martine, N.K. Harry Potter fans-21 series you should check out Scroll down for info about the individual books in the series, plus questions and answers from author interviews with Jemisin. Her speculative works range from fantasy to science fiction to the undefinable her themes include resistance to oppression, the inseverability of the liminal, and the coolness of Stuff Blowing Up. Her work has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, and she is a 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow.

Jemisin is the first author to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, for her Broken Earth trilogy. Jemisin weaves a tale of intrigue, betrayal, and passion in a kingdom above the clouds. With The Inheritance Trilogy, New York Times bestselling and three-time Hugo award-winning author N. “I didn’t want to do anything that might piss people off, because what’s ‘myth’ to some of us is belief to others.”

The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin