Review of the first seventy or so pages of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

My, this is good so far. I don't think I've been this grabbed by the beginning of a fantasy novel since I read Perdido Street Station. I think it's the balance Jemisin strikes between introducing her characters, and her world's unusual cosmology and lethal politics, all of which are closely tied to one another. It'll be interesting to see if the novel (and its sequel; it has one) can keep it up.