Jemisin N.: The Broken Kingdoms

n the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth. a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse.

This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city.

And Oree's guest is at the heart of it . . .