book rec: The Kingdom of Gods

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The Kingdom of Gods is the concluding book of the trilogy by N. K. Jemisin that began with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which I briefly reviewed here. This is an outstandingly good trilogy and The Kingdom of Gods lived up to my every hope for it. I devoured this book, unlike a lot of what I've read lately there was never a point where I had to push myself to keep reading it, from the very first page I wanted more more more. Jemisin is working in everything from the epic cosmic scale to very immediate personal detail and it's all in balance, I mean, it's just kick-ass storytelling. Things happened that I should have seen coming but never saw coming but were so right. Mythology, romance, political allegory! Fantasy novel of the year!