The Kingdom of Gods, N. K. Jemisin
The Kingdom of Gods, N. K. Jemisin
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The Kingdom of Gods

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Casaundra Freeman

Unabridged: 16 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 10/30/2018

Synopsis

Shahar and the godling Sieh must face off against the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy, from Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.

Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family's interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for.

As long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom -- which even gods fear -- is summoned forth. Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens?

Includes a never before seen story set in the world of the Inheritance Trilogy.

About 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CC on August 17, 2023

I was so close, so close to calling quits on this book multiple times. But I persevered, mostly out of a malicious curiosity to find out whether Jemisin could really manage a one-star from me. Fortunately the answer is no. Although this is unquestionably my least favorite of her books so far, it wasn......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 09, 2015

I must say that this is the best of all three. Sieh. He touched me just as much as he touched Shahar or Deka. And before you start going on about how that's nasty, I mean it entirely metaphorically! Gosh, you people. I was damn close to tears an unknowable number of times while reading this. It was sp......more

Goodreads review by Felicia on February 18, 2012

I'm torn because I think this is probably a 4 star book, as I list it, but I didn't LOVE it as much as the first two in this trilogy. I don't know why, maybe I just didn't love the characters as much, maybe the focus on the mortal people was not as interesting as how deep the relationships ran in th......more

Goodreads review by mark on May 03, 2018

The Kingdom of Gods is an excellent wrap-up to Jemison's trilogy and the strongest of the three books. As with the prior novels, this one is both self-contained and made all the more rich and resonant by reading its predecessors. And as with the preceding two books, the novel is a distinctly emotion......more

Quotes

"In the first book of Jemisin's richly detailed Inheritance trilogy, an outcast heroine must find a way to hold her own amid the treachery of her grandfather's court. I've got a special place in my heart for political intrigue, so this book was a delight through and through!"—Cassandra Clare on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

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