
Oree hardly ever seemed truly incapacitated, either, since she was always surrounded my godlings or magic in some way.

A blind woman who paints is one thing, but a woman who can see as clear as you and me, so long as what she’s looking at is magical? Unacceptable. As much as I admire Jemisin, I was not at all satisfied with the way she portrayed her main character, Oree. I felt that she’s matured in her craft from one book to the next, and as a result, The Broken Kingdoms is a very strong novel.īeginning about ten years after the close of the first book, The Broken Kingdoms tells the story of a blind young woman who paints and sees magic. This companion novel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is, overall, probably a much better attempt on Jemisin’s part.
