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The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin

17 reviews

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Classism

Moderate: Blood, Death, Murder, Colonisation, Incest, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

libraryraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, and Violence

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Incest, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, and Pregnancy

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I really enjoy what the series does world-building wise with the gods and their natures but really feel this would be better without all the romances. Particularly in this installment it is very uncomfortable because the god is a child god but also one of the oldest gods and lines get blurred in uncomfortable ways. But the way this wrapped up felt very full circle and like a myth in ways. I'd still recommend reading if you want to read all of Jemisin's backlog but her other series are far better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, and Incest

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Sexual violence

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is not a perfect end to the trilogy, and in that sense is it the best suit for this story. This is a series about the folly of gods and humanity and imperfection and mistakes and the beauty of it all—why would it end with a neat little bow? If you’ve gotten this far, you need little persuasion to continue reading, but Jemisin makes it worth your while with a character study that reveals multitudes about this lovely world she’s made.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, War, Incest, and Murder

Minor: Excrement and Rape

applequinn's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Incest

anxiousnachos's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

5.0

I love this series so much, it’s the kind of series I am immediately going to have to go search for fanfic for so I can inhale more content with these incredible characters. It was really fantastic to get more insight into Sieh’s character, I particularly love all his scenes with Itempas, they are truly wonderful and raw and painful. Their relationship is probably my favourite from the whole series, after Yeine/Naha. Brilliant series! 

Content warnings: violence, blood, incest (kind of, among the gods), pedophilia (past, mentioned), child sexual abuse (past, mentioned), rape (past, mentioned), underage sex, suicidal ideation, burning to death 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Incest, Rape, and Pedophilia

clairehreads22's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The gods and godlings were all nicer in this ones, so yay. I mean some bad evil tendencies but eh:/ 

I loved Sieh’s character development. 

Spoiler

Sieh and Deka were cute together. 
Shahar was rude for an understandable reason, but I’m glad her & her hubby worked out. I also like her new plan of who rules Sky, etc.

I would love to visit Echo. 

Spoiler

Ok but the ending and Sieh was possibly on his path to be a god... omg!!??

The little extra scene where Shiny & Oree meet up again. I could cry. They’re so cute. 

Why 4 not 5 stars? Wasn’t my favorite plot of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Incest and Adult/minor relationship

seanml's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I have finally reached the end of the journey. When starting the trilogy I did not anticipate its meandering plot, spotty worldbuilding, deux ex machinas, or plot twists that have no weight. For a series that involves a realm called the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, I was surprised to find that only a handful of these kingdoms came up. Now, the series isn’t terrible by any means; there are a good number of fun ideas. These are just vastly outnumbered by strange, meandering, underwhelming choices in plot. I’m sure this series resonates perfectly with some people, but I am not one of them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Minor: Cannibalism, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

nerdy_reader_9571's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Torture, Rape, and Colonisation