YMMV / Inheritance Trilogy

• Broken Base: Book three got some criticism from fans who found Sieh too abrasive a character to work as a narrator, and had a hard time getting through the book (which also happens to be the longest one) because of that. Others found that the story itself was so good they were able to accept this.
• Complete Monster (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms): Scimina Arameri is the most wicked of the Arameri bloodline of the ruling city of Sky. Seeking to take over as heir from her aged uncle Dekarta, Scimina is also a cruel sadist who uses the captive god Nahadoth as a Sex Slave while also abusing and mistreating him. Despising her cousin Yeine for being part of the Darr people, Scimina attempts to use her kingdoms to commit utter genocide on Darr, deciding to settle for enslaving them if she cannot have this. Torturing Nahadoth and his son Sieh to prove a point to Yeine, Scimina later murders her own twin Relad when it appears he may become heir over her.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Seems like a lot of people drew parallels between Oree's father in Book 2 and homosexuality. The author has stated that any connection to that effect is unintentional.
• Jerkass Woobie: Itempas in book two. Actually one of the problems Jemisin had writing him: Portraying him sympathetically, while also making it clear that he's an asshole.
• Narm:
  • The very title of the series, which inevitably causes confusion with the far more well known yet less well-regarded Inheritance Cycle.
  • The sex scene between Yeine and Nahadoth is very well written for the most part... and then there's the bit where she goes on about his "divine phallus." Just look at those words together and try not to giggle.

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