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book review: Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Aug. 10th, 2010 08:11 pmN.K. Jemisin's Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is an outstandingly good high fantasy novel.
Granted I'm a little fuzzy around the edges on what counts as *high* fantasy (Book of a Thousand Days? The Thief and sequels? those being other contenders for other fantasy novels of the past few years I loved this much) but Hundred Thousand Kingdoms definitely is, and it's awesome. I don't want to say anything spoilery, but there's family drama and intrigue and mythology and while it's not YA-short at 410 pages, it feels much more tightly written than, uh, some other things. (I just finished Mieville's Kraken a few days ago, which was awesome in its own way and also recommended, but could not be called tightly written.) I think Hundred Thousand Kingdoms would probably particularly appeal to people who liked Curse of Chalion or possibly the first three Kushiel books? Go forth and read it, fantasy readers, and tell me what you think!
Granted I'm a little fuzzy around the edges on what counts as *high* fantasy (Book of a Thousand Days? The Thief and sequels? those being other contenders for other fantasy novels of the past few years I loved this much) but Hundred Thousand Kingdoms definitely is, and it's awesome. I don't want to say anything spoilery, but there's family drama and intrigue and mythology and while it's not YA-short at 410 pages, it feels much more tightly written than, uh, some other things. (I just finished Mieville's Kraken a few days ago, which was awesome in its own way and also recommended, but could not be called tightly written.) I think Hundred Thousand Kingdoms would probably particularly appeal to people who liked Curse of Chalion or possibly the first three Kushiel books? Go forth and read it, fantasy readers, and tell me what you think!
