Jemisin, N. K. -- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Young princess from an outlying barbarian tribe is summoned to Court
to be named heir. None of the cliches you're now imagining apply -- or
rather, the story lets you hold onto each one just long enough to get
oriented and then replaces it with something better. Great narrator;
great collection of cranky and devious gods (or, as Brust would say,
demons; or andaat, or... yeah, it's been a theme the past few years).
Comes to a very definite end, although other books will follow in the
same setting.
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