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The Broken Kingdoms

By N. K. Jemisin
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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. . .

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“I’m crying and I can’t even decide which emotion is causing it. The complexity of Jemisin’s characters and the stories she weaves around them makes her a standout in the genre. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors and I can’t wait to read more.”
Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes“All’altezza del primo che mi era piaciuto già molto. La trama che mi aspettavo non era questa, ma mi ha sorpreso in positivo, soprattutto per la capacità di non essere prevedibile fino alla fine.”
“Just as interesting and beautifully written as the first. A very unique plot for the second book of a trilogy - set in the same world but with very few appearances from the original characters. I thought this would make it difficult for me to get back into the world and remember the previous book but it all came back to me and I enjoyed seeing the aftermath of the first book’s conclusion from this perspective.”
Thinking Face“There are a lot of things this book does well, but the one that will stay with me forever is how poignantly it shows that love and hate are two sides of the same coin.”

About N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.

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