The Kingdom of Gods

N. K. Jemisin

Orbit, 2011 - Fiction - 584 pages

The debut series from the double Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season

For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.
Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family's interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for.
As long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom - which even gods fear - is summoned forth. Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens the kingdom of gods?

The Inheritance Trilogy begins with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, continues in The Broken Kingdoms and concludes in The Kingdom of Gods.

About the author

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, for her Broken Earth trilogy. She is a MacArthur 2020 Genius Grant Fellow. Her work has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, and the first book in her current Great Cities series, The City We Became, is a New York Times bestseller. Among other critical work, she was formerly the speculative book reviewer at the New York Times. In her spare time she's a gamer and gardener, responsible for saving the world from Ozymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his destructive sidekick Magpie. Essays and fiction excerpts are available at nkjemisin.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Kingdom of Gods; Book 3 of Inheritance trilogy, N. K. Jemisin
• Author: N. K. Jemisin
• Publisher: Orbit, 2011
• ISBN: 184149819X, 9781841498195
• Length: 584 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Unexplained Phenomena; Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Fantasy / General