N. K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season

A complex, edge-of-your-seat story with plenty of funny, scary, and bittersweet twists.

Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

An offbeat, engaging tale by a talented and original newcomer.

Kirkus

An astounding debut novel the world-building is solid, the characterization superb, the plot complicated but clear.

RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!)

A delight for the fantasy reader.

Library Journal (Starred Review)

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is an impressive debut, which revitalizes the trope of empires whose rulers have gods at their fingertips.

io9.com

N. K. Jemisin has written a fascinating epic fantasy where the stakes are not just the fate of kingdoms but of the world and the universe.

sfrevu.com

Many books are good, some are great, but few are truly important. Add to this last category The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N. K. Jemisins debut novel In this reviewers opinion, this is the must-read fantasy of the year.

BookPage

A similar blend of inventiveness, irreverence, and sophisticationalong with sensualitybrings vivid life to the setting and other characters: human and otherwise The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms definitely leaves me wanting more of this delightful new writer.

Locus

A compelling page-turner.

The Onion A.V. Club

An absorbing story, an intriguing setting and world mythology, and a likable narrator with a compelling voice. The next book cannot come out soon enough.

fantasybookcafe.com

The Broken Kingdoms expands the universe of the series geographically, historically, magically and in the range of characters, while keeping the same superb prose and gripping narrative that made the first one such a memorable debut.

Fantasy Book Critic

The Kingdom of Gods once again proves Jemisins skill and consistency as a storyteller, but what sets her apart from the crowd is her ability to imagine and describe the mysteries of the universe in language that is at once elegant and profane, and thus, true.

Shelf Awareness

Praise for the
DREAMBLOOD DUOLOGY

Ah, N. K. Jemisin, you can do no wrong.

Felicia Day

The Killing Moon is a powerhouse and, in general, one hell of a story to read. Jemisin has arrived.

Bookworm Blues

The authors exceptional ability to tell a compelling story and her talent for world-building have assured her place at the forefront of fantasy.

Library Journal (Starred Review)

Jemisin excels at world-building and the inclusion of a diverse mix of characters makes her settings feel even more real and vivid.

RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!)

The novel also showcases some skillful, original world-building. Like a lucid dreamer, Jemisin takes real-world influences as diverse as ancient Egyptian culture and Freudian/Jungian dream theory and unites them to craft a new world that feels both familiar and entirely new. Its all refreshingly unique.

Slant Magazine

Read this or miss out on one of the best fantasy books of the year so far.

San Francisco Book Review

N. K. Jemisin is playing with the gods againand its just as good as the first time.

io9.com

T HE I NHERITANCE T RILOGY

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Broken Kingdoms

The Kingdom of Gods

The Awakened Kingdom (novella)

The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)

D REAMBLOOD

The Killing Moon

The Shadowed Sun

T HE B ROKEN E ARTH

The Fifth Season

For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question

L ETS START WITH THE END of the world, why dont we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.

First, a personal ending. There is a thing she will think over and over in the days to come, as she imagines how her son died and tries to make sense of something so innately senseless. She will cover Uches broken little body with a blanketexcept his face, because he is afraid of the darkand she will sit beside it numb, and she will pay no attention to the world that is ending outside. The world has already ended within her, and neither ending is for the first time. Shes old hat at this by now.

What she thinks then, and thereafter, is: But he was free.

And it is her bitter, weary self that answers this almost-question every time her bewildered, shocked self manages to produce it:

He wasnt. Not really. But now he will be.

* * *

But you need context. Lets try the ending again, writ continentally.

Here is a land.

It is ordinary, as lands go. Mountains and plateaus and canyons and river deltas, the usual. Ordinary, except for its size and its dynamism. It moves a lot, this land. Like an old man lying restlessly abed it heaves and sighs, puckers and farts, yawns and swallows. Naturally this lands people have named it