- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: December 24, 2018
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Listening Length: 16 hours and 58 minutes
- Version: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Book 3 of 3: The Inheritance Trilogy
- Author: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Casaundra Freeman
- ASIN: B07M956762
- Print ISBN: 978-0316043939
- Print Release Date: 2011
The Kingdom of Gods by N. K. Jemisin is the third book in The Inheritance Trilogy. I have recently reviewed the first two books in the series here (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms).
I listened to all three of these on the Libby app through my local library. I highly recommend it. It expands the reach of your library and gives you access to additional content of various media. Enough of the commercial for Libby, back to the novel.
I enjoyed The Kingdom of Gods, but I did not love it. It focuses on Seih, the godling of childhood (and sometimes childishness) and his interactions with a pair of Aramari mortal children. We originally met Seih in The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms where he was an important but not major character. Here, Seih is met with a new challenge for a child god, growing up. The world is also at a crossroads with new challengers to the Aramari ruling clan and new challengers to the gods themselves.
It has an interesting take on how the unchangeable can be caused to change. The power of love, of children for parents, of lovers for each other and of followers to gods, etc.
It is a good book, but far from Jemisin’s best. While I enjoyed another spin through this universe, I didn’t feel like I got anything new from this story. A lot of stuff happens, but a lot of it is just similar to stuff that happened in the first two books. It seemed like maybe Jemisin really liked the Seih character (I did too), and felt he should have his own story. Unfortunately, this story really doesn’t do the character justice, and the ending doesn’t really satisfy. If you just liked the other two, you probably don’t have to read this one. If you really loved the first two, you should probably read this one to round out the story, but set your expectations down a notch or two.
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