![]() ![]() ![]() The story focuses a lot on the strange romance between the two, so much so that I around the middle of the book I realised that I was in fact reading a book of romantic fantasy. In fact I would argue the main plot of the story is the growing relationship between Yeine and Nahadoth. The story was actually just as much about the gods, especially Nahadoth. To my surprise I quickly realised that the political intrigue was a back drop. Yet the gods seem to have an intrigue of her own and Yeine finds herself drawn to Nahadoth, the night lord, with whom she develops a strange relationship. She is named as the heir to the throne, and forced into a bloody conflict with cousins she never knew she had. ![]() She is summoned to the city named Sky, where gods are used as weapons by the powerful Arameri family of whom her grandfather is the head. The story revolves around a girl named Yeine Darr whose mother dies in strange circumstances. I came into it with little knowledge of what it was about, or whether or not it would be any good. Jemisin, of no relation to the more popular Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, which I started reading for research purposes. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the the first part of The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. ![]()
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