

Oree has made a life for herself in Art Row. Interestingly, Oree can see the light that is magic but not the everyday human people and things. She’s an immigrant from Maro, now called Maroneh. Like Yeine, Oree is an outsider in Shadow. But thankfully, Oree is a strong enough character to stand on her own, and I didn’t spend the entire book comparing her to Yeine.

And she has relationships with both gods and godlings, again like Yeine.

Oree Shoth is conflicted and facing challenges just like Yeine Darr was in the first book. Jemisin makes another mortal the main character. It begins some ten years later, when the city called Sky has become Shadow. The timeline of this second book in the Inheritance Trilogy, called The Broken Kingdoms, doesn’t follow immediately after its predecessor.
