N. K. Jemisin is a career counselor, political blogger and would-be gourmand living in New York City. She's been writing since the age of ten, although her early works will never see the light of day.
The very best kind of sequel: as lush and evocative and true as the first, with all the same sense of mystery, giving us the world and characters we already love, and yet with a new story and a wonderfully new perspective on the whole dazzling world and pantheon the author has built Naomi Novik A fresh new series ... with a unique edge and a different voice ... flowing, almost poetic prose ... Jemisin is on the path to becoming a big name in fantasy fiction SciFiNow This is a book that readers won't be able to put down ... A magnificent novel and one of the best books this reviewer has read this year ROMANTIC TIMES Intense, epic, and involving i09.com