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The Broken Kingdoms

The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 2

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The Broken Kingdoms

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman
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The debut series from the double Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season.

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 homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight.

However, this act of kindness is to engulf Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger - but is it him the killers want, or Oree? And is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?

The Inheritance Trilogy begins with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, continues in The Broken Kingdoms and concludes in The Kingdom of Gods.

©2010 N. K. Jemisin (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Royalty

Critic reviews

"Lush and evocative." (Naomi Novik, author of Uprooted)
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Fallen in love with this entire series. Inheritance trilogy is the second I’ve done, the first was Broken Earth. And all I can say is - I wish I could forget it all so I can start over fresh again… it’s awesome

Just so damn good

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I didn’t like this quite as much as the first one, but it’s still very good.

Great reader, good story

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After book one, expectations were high. This almost feels stunted, started off well but just lost me with the story turns that didn’t really work.

The narration was great but the story was not

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