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[ID: A book cover. A city in a large tree stretches vertically across the centre of the book, against a blue and green background.
At the top of the cover, in small, white capitals, text reads “Gods and mortals. Power and love. Death and Revenge. She will unleash them all.”
Below this, in large, white capitals, the title “The Broken Kingdoms”. The “the” is slightly smaller and inside the “O” of “Broken”.
At the bottom of cover, the author’s name, “N. K. Jemisin” in large, yellow capitals. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Murder
• Violence
• Blood
• Death
• Sexual Content
• Grief
• Pregnancy
• References to Incest
• Death of a Parent
• Torture
• Suicide and Attempted Suicide
• Kidnapping
• Cults
• Ableism

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Summary:

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city.

Oree’s peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger — but is it him the killers want, or Oree? And is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?

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Notes:

This is the second book in the Inheritance Trilogy series. It is set 10 years after the first.

For more information on content warnings please see here.

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Archivist Comments:

Did not realise that was a city, a tree or a city in a tree on the cover until I was doing the ID.

This book and it’s predecessor seem fairly popular. I’ve seen some people saying that although it technically carries on the story of the first one, it can be read as a standalone.

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