Like its predecessor, The Broken Kingdoms is a wonderfully spun fantasy story that looks at what it means to be divine in terms of what it means to be human. As before, the characters are all well realized and th story is well written as well as original. An excellent story that more than lives up to the high standards set by the first and leaves me hoping that the third one will come out soon. This was the kind of book that i simultaneously want desperately to finish and wish will never end.