The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin

[sophia_sol]

I picked this book back up because I want to read the sequels but I felt that would go better if I reminded myself what happened in the first one.

So this was my second time reading this book, and both times I found myself stopping halfway through the book for a very long break (like, multi-month), long enough to mostly forget what happened in the first half, before finally finishing the book. Usually I only do this kind of thing if I'm finding a book unusually stressful (eg The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or The Reverse of the Medal), but I don't find The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms to be that stressful, so there's clearly something else going on...? I said the first time I read this book that I loved it, and I think that's true, but it seems that there's something about it that doesn't work for me, even if I'm not sure how to articulate what.

I'll be interested to find out what I think about the sequels.

Comments

[skygiants]

I think that's the thing for me with Nahadoth too -- I'm fully ready to love a good charming chaos avatar but Nahadoth is too busy feeling sorry for himself to be charming! Make 'em laugh, Nahadoth, that's the ticket.

[sophia_sol]

Now I'm imagining a version of Nahadoth as played by Donald O'Connor and it's kind of an amazing thought