The Kingdom of Gods

One of the signs of a great fantasy series is if it moves me to the point of tears or not. The final book of the Inheritance Trilogy did, so for me it's a successful series. The third book is set another 90 years ahead of the events in book 2 and features Sieh as first person narrator of the story. Drawn back to his former prison in Sky, the godling meets the twins of the current Arameri leader and befriends the children. When they swear a blood oath to be real friends, some strange magic happens, turning Sieh mortal and worst for him rapidly ages the godling of children. While trying to find a way to regain his godhood, he gets enmeshed in a plot to destroy the Arameri family and other machinations of a previously unknown godling.

Not only do you get to meet new characters like the Arameri twins, but you get to spend more time with characters from the previous books. Certainly ridiculous at times with this super dramatic premise of the 3 deities and their love triangle, I cared enough to cry at the equally dramatic, over the top warring gods finale.

I think I have endorsed this trilogy quite enough but have to mention that I thought it was fabulous to have a series of books with strong female characters of color and both straight and gay romances. Plus the odd pansexual, I suppose.