This is amazing, innovative world-building, like the other Jemisin books I've read. But to me it was too much and not presented clearly enough. I spent too much time reading a name and thinking "who was that again?" or a mention of a nationality or ethnic group and wondering if I was supposed to have figured out how it related to the story by now. And although I wanted to know how things were going to turn out, the story never really gripped me. Although I felt some connection to the characters I didn't really worry about whether they would live or die.

I'll probably read the next book set in this world, but it wouldn't kill me not to.