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    The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

    Written by N. K. Jemisin

    Narrated by Casaundra Freeman

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    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.

    "Jemisin's engaging debut grabs readers right from the start…a complex, edge-of-your-seat story with plenty of funny, scary, and bittersweet twists." - Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2010
    ISBN9781441886491
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    The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    N. K. Jemisin

    N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Jemisin's short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets and print anthologies. Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection are available from Orbit Books. Jemisin is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger. N. K.'s stories include The City Born Great and The Fifth Season.

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    • 3/5
      I don't read a lot of fantasy... I liked it well enough, and I think I will eventually read the rest of the series because I'm curious about what happens to Yeine, Nahadoth and Sieh.

      I found Jemisin's writing to be excellent, and her mythology very detailed. However, I did find myself in a bit of confusion throughout some of the book, I think because I'm not used to reading this genre. I couldn't tell when Yeine was speaking or when Enefa was kind of speaking to her. I had a hard time understanding her dreams and whatnot, the memories that were resurfacing because of Enefa. The two-soul thing... how it happened, why, what it meant... is something I need a better grasp on. And the ending is a bit confusing to me, because I'm not sure why/how the whole thing with her becoming a Goddess, Enefa bidding her farewell, etc. happened. I need to find a good spoiler-y review to help me understand some of the parts I didn't quite get. I know, it sounds like I didn't understand a single thing that happened in the book but I did find it quite interesting and have no doubt I'll pick up the sequels at some point!

      If you like high fantasy I think you'll find this book a good read.
    • 5/5
      as brilliant as the first time
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. The writing was immersive and vivid, the magic system fascinating and intriguing, the characters visceral and understandable. Excellence. Highest recommend. Cannot wait to read second!
    • 4/5
      For fans of Game of Thrones, this might hold you over until George R.R. Martin wraps things up. I really enjoyed Jemisin's world building, especially the creation mythology that really permeates the plot. I love seeing gods and immortals as characters who interact with mortals, and these are some of the more creative interpretations I've seen.
    • 5/5
      I keep telling myself that N.K. Jemisin's work is exactly the sort of dark stuff I don't like.

      And I keep loving it.

      Yeine Darr is the ruler of a small kingdom in the north, a kingdom slowly dying from the hostility of her grandfather. Yet after her mother's mysterious death, her grandfather summons her to the fabulous city of Sky, where to her shock she is named one of his heirs.

      This is not the good fortune it appears. It locks her in a death struggle with two cousins she had never met before--and she soon realizes she is supposed to lose, and die in the process.

      And this struggle involves not just her unknown relatives, and the customs and traditions of Sky, very different from her homeland, but also the gods. The ruling god, Itempis, and his defeated kin, captives and tools of her grandfather, Dekarta Aramari, will all play a role in determining her future, and her kingdom's.

      This is as fully realized a world and culture as The Silence of the Broken Earth trilogy, and much of it is dark and grim, and other things I don't care to read or listen to, except that, as I said, I find it utterly compelling. I need to keep going, and read more. Yeine is just too compelling, and I need to know what happens to her and her world.

      Highly recommended

      I bought this audiobook.
    • 3/5
      More like a 3.5 and that's more a rating of me as a reader than of the book. I was distracted while reading this and I know I missed some things. The ending saved it for me.
    • 5/5
      Loved this one!
    • 3/5
      A very interesting and deep world, but a little slow moving and confusing in parts.
    • 4/5
      I'd heard good things about this author and while I enjoyed the book I wasn't thrilled with it. I didn't end up caring about the characters much although they are interesting at times. And for a book that is about political conspiracies, there just wasn't much of them. Stephen Donaldson does a much better and complex job of political conspiracy in "Mordant's Need". So I'm not sure I'll bother with rest of trilogy but I've heard good things about "The Fifth Season" so I might try that once it's finished.
    • 5/5
      Wow! I was impressed, I couldn't put this one down. Yeine Darr is a granddaughter of the current ruler of the world, only thing is, he disowned her mother for running away with her father. So her first time seeing both her grandfather and the city he rules from, is after her mother dies. She is thrown into an alien situation, in a no holds barred, political maneuvering, last man/woman standing takes all. And she doesn't know the rules.Which ultimately helps her out, since she is unaware of the rules she shouldn't be able to break, or just would be extremely dangerous to attempt. She does make some allies in the unlikeliest of places, and maybe even a few friends. The story was incredible and intense. I can't wait to get the next book in the series! I just hope the author can keep up the story telling through the whole series!
    • 5/5
      Really great book. If you enjoy fantasy and some god-like mythology this is perfect. I cannot wait for the next book in the series.
    • 3/5
      Tiptree shortlist 2010. Not being particularly fond of gods and kings type fantasy I surprised myself by enjoying it.
    • 4/5
      Elegantly written, and I would hardly call this fantasy.
    • 5/5
      Yeine Darre is the ultimate tragic heroine in this brilliant novel. This is a unique and non-traditional work that features a narrator (Yeine) who is also the principal character in her story. Alternating from a "behind the eyes" point of view to a traditional story telling mode, the book follows the life and death of Yeine in a well thought out fantasy world. Yeine's own losses in life are mirrored in the society and world around her, leading to a climatic ending where the entire structure of her world is dependent on how she lives or dies. Highly recommended
    • 3/5
      It took some time for me to get into the story. I don't think the author narrated it as well as she could have. After the first book and finally understanding what the author was explaining you start to get attached to the characters and you have to finish the story to see what finally happens. I found this book searching for a new read over the internet. It was ok, didn't love it.
    • 4/5
      I still don't know why it's called The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. I mean, that's a lot of kingdoms! And we see so little of any of them in this book... I'll start with the few things that bothered me: One, I wasn't terribly impressed with the way a lot of the exposition was delivered. Some of t was really clever but some of it seemed more like the author threw a paragraph in somewhere just to get that info across to the reader without bothering to fit it into the narrative better. Two, I just wish there was *more* of everything. While I loved (or loved to hate) all the characters, some of the characterisation seemed to barely scratch the surface. A bit more substance there would've been nice to really help these people spring to live.But. Despite that, I enjoyed this book greatly and there was more than one passage that left me breathless by the end of it, and I frequently tripped over sentences that I just had to reread and admire for a minute before moving on. If there's one thing that this book is really good at, stylistically, it's hard-hitting single sentences. I like the prose in this book in general; aside from one scene later on that was a bit too "out there" for me to enjoy, it's just the right mixture of poetic and matter-of-factly.Can I just gush about the characters for a moment? I know I complained a bit about the characterisation above, and there are certainly some that I regret not seeing more of (particularly Zhakkarn and Relad, but also Ras Onchi and Yeine's Darre family & friends), but I still love them. Predictably enough, Sieh and Nahadoth hit about a dozen of my weak spots between them (and it helped a great deal that the creepier elements of Nahadoth's character were actually acknowledged as such both by the narrative and the heroine) and the mystery surrounding Yeine's mother Kinneth was an intriguing one. And speaking of Yeine, she was an excellent protagonist who is so driven by anger but who manages to not lose her empathy in the process. But who is still very much allowed to be angry by the narrative, and it's anger and the wish to take control of a life that seems so completely controlled by other people that motivate her. A lot of this story is about agency, I think, and Yeine's character arc incorporates it well... among many, many other things.Speaking of other things, have I mentioned how much I loved the portrayal of the gods in this story? (... kind of, yeah.) I love how they resemble humans but are never *quite* human, if that makes sense, and how even when, at one point, I said "Will you stop bickering already?!" out loud at my book, they still manage to be *more*. (Anything more I could say about why I love them would constitute a spoiler and I want to keep those out of this review.)This book stands on its own really well, but me, I want more of it. And thankfully, there *is* more. Excuse me, I'll have to go buy the sequel now...(note: do yourself a favour and buy a version of this book that isn't the kindle edition. The formatting leaves much to be desired, often pulling words apar t or smooshing themtogether several times per chapter. It gets irritating fast.)
    • 5/5
      Oh my. I put off reading this book from when I bought it far too long. The writing is vivid and evocative and superb.
    • 4/5
      I really liked it but events seemed to happened so quickly, no time to breathe. That's just a style choice of mine rather than anything wrong with how Jemisin wrote it.
    • 4/5
      Holy surprise. I have to admit that I was not immediately enticed to pick this up, but after seeing some good reviews, I thought I'd give it a try.

      I'm glad I did. Jemisin establishes the world and characters quickly, and offers us a unique story that was quite refreshing in the fantasy genre. I quite enjoyed the first 150 pages, and after that? I reveled in the rest.

      Most impressive, I thought, was how well she structured the story to carry the characters, tension, and surprises all the way through to a great finish
    • 5/5
      An excellent antidote to Asimov. Believable female characters and everything! I really enjoyed this, even though I usually dislike books with sex scenes, because this one actually wove them into the plot pretty well. I'll probably pick up the rest of the series soon.
    • 5/5
      I picked this up due to glowing reviews from various people whose taste I trust. I didn't quite expect it to be as good a match for me as it was, I think -- but I was glued to it. It was the kind of book I would have stayed up late to finish, if I had to. The kind of book I didn't want to put down. It has a lot of the elements I recognise from other fantasy fiction: corrupt politics, struggles between gods, an outsider coming to court for the first time, etc, etc. But it made something different, for me. I felt like I was reading something new.

      The book is written in first person. The narrator, Yeine, is the central character. The style of the narration is quite oral, in the sense that the story unfolds as if someone is telling the story aloud, and can't go back and edit themselves, but goes backwards and forwards, pauses to give extra information, etc. I can understand people not liking the style, but it worked for me. Yeine as a character is interesting: there's a streak of ruthlessness in her that somewhat surprised me, because so often the outsider thrown into the middle is utterly unsuited for the game they're playing. Yeine isn't utterly unsuited, though the reason she gets as far as she does is because she doesn't play the game by their rules, and it's not simply that she's nicer than them. She isn't, really. I liked the contrast in her nature: the ruthlessness, and yet the regret, the way she doesn't want to become just another one of the ruling family.

      I loved a lot of the other characters as well. I like Sieh and his boyish nature, but the fact that he has to work on it, has to choose it and take himself back to it. I like Nahadoth and his chaos. I found it believable. Despite knowing that for the book to carry on he would have to do the sensible thing, I could believe in his chaotic nature, that he would do something unpredictable, destructive, even detrimental to his own cause. Nahadoth is probably my favourite character, for all the contradictions of him.

      The mythology was something I found intensely interesting -- what was, and what was not, new about it. How fresh I found it, despite my general feeling that gods have been Done To Death in fantasy fiction until there is nothing new. This book made me feel like it was something new.

      I found it satisfying in itself -- a complete story, with a fitting ending -- but also want more, more by this author, more in this world.

      Perhaps a mark of my enthusiasm over it is that I'm probably going to buy copies for a lot of my friends. I can see in some ways why it might leave people cold -- the narration and the relationships between the gods spring to mind -- but it was immensely satisfying for me.
    • 5/5
      OK, first things first: This book is great. I'd especially recommend it to anyone who has a dual interest in urban fantasy and high fantasy.

      Urban fantasy lovers will enjoy: the strong female protagonist, the first person narration, the intimate setting (it's not one of those sprawling high fantasies that has umpteen main characters scattered about the world on dozens of interlocking quests), and the dangerous romance.

      High fantasy lovers will enjoy: the well-developed mythology, high-stakes politics, gods running amok among humans, beautifully realized alternate reality.

      I'm always impressed when books like this one really work, because they rarely do. The make-or-break quality to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is the sheer quality of the writing. If you dig it, you're in for a wild ride. If not, there's no point in continuing. The main character, Yeine, narrates in a voice that is weighty, intimate, and oracular. There's plenty of action and plot development, but it's Yeine's asides, observations, and forebodings that send goosebumps up your arms as you read. As you can tell, it totally worked for me.

      Actually, let me give an example. This is the second paragraph of the book: "My people tell stories of the night I was born. They say my mother crossed her legs in the middle of labor and fought with all her strength not to release me into the world. I was born anyhow, of course; nature cannot be denied. Yet it does not surprise me that she tried."

      I'd describe the plot, but it's been done elsewhere. Yeine walks into a bad situation - she's a fish out of water plunged into court intrigues she's totally unfamiliar with, with many enemies and no allies - and things only get harder as she starts to figure things out. She's a really likable, strong, admirable character and it was a pleasure to spend some time in her head, but she faces some pretty horrific dilemmas. I was prepared to roll my eyes at a character/love interest named "the Nightlord" but he totally worked for me...surprise surprise. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards, this book is a hell of a read as well, though a little jerky to get started with. The author intentionally switches tense, time, and place at a moments notice, requiring you to stay on your feet and really pay attention, lest you lose important details. That said, her use of foreshadowing and tiny little nudges/brush-strokes all along the read really pays off at the end. Gods, godesses, their lovers, and intricate power struggles twist and turn like the great spire of Sky itself being woven from the finest golden thread. The finish is every bit as amazing as you'd expect it to be, and I can't wait to read the rest of this trilogy!
    • 4/5
      For most of the book, I had no idea what was going on. Most would consider this a bad thing, but I was so interested and invested in the story that I didn't care that it wasn't all clear. I mean, honestly, I think that was the point.Yeine's story is filled with gods, rulers, family and the world Jemisin builds is fascinating. A great read (a little violent at times, but nothing compared to say...George RR Martin's violence), I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
    • 3/5
      I flew through this book, faster than I thought I would. Perhaps it was the font size and white spacing; perhaps it was the compelling story. Told in the first person by a backwoods 'barbaric' young woman called to the very center of the world, unbelievably as the heir, by her grandfather. Completely out of her element, but not without heart, courage and brains, Yeine proves equal to the challenges of brutal court politics.

      I can't say I enjoyed this story, but I can appreciate the ingenuity of the writing. I did not need the reminder that humans, weak, broken, fallen humans, can stoop to such depths of depravity and but one young woman opens her eyes and sees the truth and has the courage to do what should have been done centuries ago.

      I may change my rating from three to four stars, because as a debut novel it excelled. I will continue to ponder it's impact on my reading soul and update this review after a few days.
    • 5/5
      I Wish that I had more stars. I started reading on Saturday night and, excepting sleep time. I haven't been able to put it down since. The author picked me up on page one and didn't let me go. The characters are powerful. The magic system and world are gripping, frightening and intriguing. I highly recommend this book
    • 3/5
      There are some neat things going on in this book, but somehow it didn't quite work for me. The subtle framing device is interesting, and the layers of misdirection are very effective - I totally didn't figure out the murder mystery until the reveal. But the murder mystery is not really the core of the book, and the main character never quite pops for me - she's a little too passive, a little too much just the observer to draw me all the way in.

      There is some very cool worldbuilding going on, even if I feel like the gods-as-essentially-human thing has been done before, and I am totally willing to pick up the sequel. As a first novel this is a pretty impressive effort, even if it's far from perfect.
    • 5/5
      Hmm. Where to begin? Once upon a time there were Three Gods: The Brightlord, Twilight/Dawn, and the Nightlord. They went to war and the Brightlord won. He killed Twilight/Dawn, who had betrayed him, and imprisoned the Nightlord in a mortal body. Over 2000 years later, the world (the hundred-thousand kingdoms) is ruled by the descendents of the Nightlord's high priestess at the time of the God's War.Yeine's mother died (suspiciously, she believes) just shortly before she is summoned from her backwater kingdom to Sky, the palace which rules over all the kingdoms. The ruler over all the kingdoms is Yeine's grandfather, who disowned her mother many years ago when she left Sky to marry a barbarian. Upon arriving in Sky she discovers that her grandfather intends her to be one of his three possible heirs, along with violent, cruel Scimina and her lazy, uncaring twin brother Relad.The world-building in this book is AMAZING; it's on the level of Star Wars or Dune in its political complexity and theology. There's even a lovely little glossary in the back, and two chapters from in-world reference materials. The plot of the book itself is a little confusing. But did I mention that the world-building is amazing??
    • 4/5
      This was a very interesting book to read so soon after Neil Gaiman's American Gods. It certainly takes a different direction, but both have to do with gods interacting with humans and showing their all-too-human foibles.

      My husband picked this one up for me after hearing it praised on NPR as a fantasy novel outside the boys' club tradition of the genre. I found the book an absolute pleasure to read. It's fantasy but with an almost sci-fi feel to it, as most of the action takes place in the palace where the main characters are all essentially imprisoned (to one degree or another). It put me in mind of the "trapped on a space ship" motif.

      In some areas, I found the text to be a little repetitious (how many times do I need to read, in detail, about the shadows in Nahadoth's face?), but it was a smooth read despite these. I found it highly enjoyable to read Yeine's evolution. Surrounded by immortals for whom change occurs on the scale of eons, and a rigid, orderly society intent upon keeping things the same, the changes in Yeine are all the more striking.

      Jemisin's world was vivid and clear in my mind. Unlike with many fantasy/sci-fi novels, I didn't find myself getting disoriented in an unfamiliar landscape, which I think speaks to her writing skill. I really appreciated that this was a fantasy novel in which women and people of color took a lead role and that was just the way of Jemisin's world. There was no beating the reader over the head, no "Look how cool! A culture of women warriors! Gods whose skin isn't pale!" It was just a good story and these were just the characters who populated it.

      Oh, and without being lewd or clumsy, the steamy parts were oh-so-steamy! The close relationship between hatred and lust, control and the lack thereof, was quite effective.

      This book kept me up past my bedtime and then made the kids and me late for our morning activities because I couldn't put the darned thing down, but it was worth it. I just wish the cover art on the paperback edition were a little less...I don't know, in line with the genre? I found myself feeling self-conscious reading it in public. Plus, Yeine had short hair. What's with the flowing locks? Unless that's supposed to be Nahadoth (in which case, what's he doing on the cover?)
    • 4/5
      If you could give 3 1/2 stars I would have. Great premise, but somehow felt empty. Something's not fleshed out enough descriptively - those little details that make fiction feel real. But thank god sf has a new writer who is not a knock off like most