The main gods being three and having a triangular relation feel similar, if more murderous and incestuous to that of Essun, Alabaster and Innon in the later The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season / The Obelisk Gate / The Stone Sky. The moral implications are profound, with one of the past Arameri even destroying a whole continent via the super weapon power of the god of Chaos and Darkness. This brings along all kind of complications because the gods are unpredictable and even mischievous, wanting to stir up trouble against the ruling Arameri family head. In Sky gods have been enslaved by men after a disastrous war led to one god ruling all. But that didn’t make me wrong) dropped in the heart of power made me think of Arkady Martine A Memory Called Empire series.Įxcept this heiress is not due an intergalactic enterprise but a godly powered floating palace. The start of this book made me think of the movie Jupiter Rising, with a nobody becoming heiress to a vast kingdom. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - three stars Lush but sometimes uneven in pace and every new part of the trilogy thoroughly threw me off track from continuing the book in one smooth reading experienceĮmpowerment doesn’t always waits for wisdom

Well this was a trip that took me significantly longer than I imagined upfront.

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