The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.

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 with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.

With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.

Author: N. K. Jemisin
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 02/25/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780316043915


Award: Hugo Award - Nominee
Award: Locus Awards - Winner
Award: Nebula Awards - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2009
Publishers Weekly 01/11/2010 pg. 36
Library Journal 01/15/2010 pg. 96
Romantic Times 02/01/2010 pg. 56 - Excellent
Booklist 02/15/2010 pg. 46

About the Author
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.