Original Language: English
Publisher: Orbit
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0316043915
Page Count: 427
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 a pair of 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.The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is N.K Jemisin's first full-length novel. tHTKs is the tale of Yeine and her destiny to release the mortal Gods trapped in Sky. For Yeine, returning to Sky to face her Grandfather, it is an opportunity to learn who her Mother truly was and to avenge her sudden death.
