The Broken Kingdoms
- 398
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Broken Kingdoms” is a second volume that starts afresh, with a new heroine and a murder mystery in a city shared with gods. Oree, blind except to magic, is its most memorable idea, and its gods are proud, unpredictable and each unlike the next. Some readers need a while to settle into her story before it joins the larger one. Best read after the first book.
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About the book
The Broken Kingdoms is a fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin, the second book of her The Inheritance Trilogy. It takes place ten years after the events of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and centers around a young woman named Oree Shoth, who lives in the World Tree-shrouded, godling-inhabited city of Shadow.
Reading order · The Inheritance Trilogy
Full order & progress →- The Hundred Thousand KingdomsStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Broken KingdomsThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Kingdom of Gods
7.87.8 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 265 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 64% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 15 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 250 | 94% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Broken Kingdoms?
It has 398 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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