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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
By:N. K. Jemisin
Published on 2010-02-25 by Orbit

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together. The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: Dreamblood DuologyThe Killing MoonThe Shadowed Sun The Broken Earth The Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk Gate

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Do not you kind of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were uniformly plainspoken, only effective, unpretentious, and -- above all otherwise -- boring, boring, dull? Do not you kind of hate when people state'do not you think in this way or sense this way'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to accepting using them? In the words of ABBA: I do, I really do, I do(, I really do, I do). Well, because the interwebs is just a earth in which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we can review yesteryear in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the very least until this website ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in their entirety. I've bound it with huge rope and pulled it here for your perusal. 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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it had been designed to be read, then it will be a novel, not really a play. Together with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every character for a few pages). None people had read the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to make me more or less hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can really fuck up your GPA. 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I like your in vain grasping on similes which cannot solution this bilious hate in the heart. That you are my own, in addition to We are yours. Figuratively talking, connected with course. And from now on here is our review: Macbeth by means of William Shakespeare is a good fictional do the job inside British language, in addition to anybody who disagrees is surely an asshole plus a dumbhead.