The Broken Kingdoms
by:
N.K. Jemisin (author)
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,...
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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. . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316043960 (0316043966)
ASIN: 316043966
Publish date: November 3rd 2010
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: The Inheritance Trilogy (#2)
N.K. Jemisin verdankt ihre Karriere als erfolgreiche Schriftstellerin zum Teil ihrem Vater. Als sie 30 wurde, durchlebte sie eine Art Midlife-Crisis. Sie entschied, dass sie bestimmte Dinge in ihrem Leben erreichen wollte. Sie wollte herausfinden, ob das Schreiben, bisher ein Hobby, für sie eine Zuk...
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, enth...
Series: Inheritance #2 I was tempted to give this book one star just because it kept going downhill, but I think I'll be generous. There was nothing really wrong with it; I just didn't care and only kept going to see how mildly it would end. It felt like nothing was happening even though stuff was...
I liked this one possibly even more than the last one, although I took longer to read it. :)Loved how sympathetic Oree managed to make Shiny. Loved that the theme of this book was basically "family is hard".
The city of Sky has fallen into Shadow, hiding under the World Tree, with godlings finally free from the Interdiction left over from the Gods' War thousands of years before. Ten years after the birth of The Lady, Shadow is a "new" city formed between roots of the Tree and the politics of the Arameri...
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