I’m also re-reading The Inheritance Trilogy and I thought it would serve as a Stephen King palate cleanser but I’m actually appreciating it as a welcome change from the slate of Very Good First Novels I read this summer. Some of them I really did like but they all desperately wanted me to like them. They have perfect MFA approved ambiguous endings and a touch of magical realism and any historical details are exactingly correct and it whispers please like me I’m a first novel.

And NJ Jemisin’s first book strides up to you and announces that her protagonist is here to fuck the devil and overthrow God. And I think that’s what the magazines mean when they say confidence is sexy.