In The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms this it was kind of unexpected, now it’s rather tiresome. I feel the trope of a special girl #notlikeothergirls who falls for someone who is hard to get/understand but *gasp* is also someone very special makes this instalment hard to get through. Oree, the main character of this book, feels like a merchant peddling goods at Sacre Coeur in Paris, but than at Ygdrassil. Be what you choose to be, not what they made you. Overal enjoyable but with a rather blatant deus ex machina at the end and never ging me a true tension that our main character would not end up on top somehow in the end.

Like so much in Sky, wrong but understandable. Which made it no more right - but understandable. The theme of order and peace versus chaos and change is interesting as does some moral corruption being forced upon our main character: They push and pull at me, silent commands.

I mean sentences like these are rather atrocious: Most annoying to be me where however the Twilight/ Fifty Shades of Grey vibes in the relationship between the main character and one of the gods. The matriarchal society of Darre is a nice contrast, and there is a living dead plague (which never recurs in the other books unfortunately) and shows richness in world building, but the whole stone and ceremony being introduced around page 160 feels a bit botched and sudden 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.

The inheritance trilogy