The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) in /r/Fantasy Discussion Group

Mar 31, 2018 Rinaldo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, fantasy, favorites, united-states, literary-fiction

5/5

This is the Stillness, a world where apocalypse has been happening multiple times over millennia. This is a world where orogenes, people who can control earth and heat, are oppressed and abused. This is a world of survival and trauma. The world has ended for the last time.

The World of Stillness and Catastrophes
The Stillness is an atmospheric and bleak supercontinent where floating obelisks looming in the sky. The world has been torn multiple times due extreme tectonic and volcanic activities. ...more

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Nov 09, 2019 forestsprite rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, dystopia, apocolyptic

This book took a little bit to get into, but once I was hooked the rest of it went by quite quickly.

The narrative structure, with the multiple, converging POVs was pretty interesting and well-done, I thought, though I questioned the need for it later. (view spoiler) This book took a little bit to get into, but once I was hooked the rest of it went by quite quickly.

The narrative structure, with the multiple, converging POVs was pretty interesting and well-done, I thought, though I questioned the need for it later. (view spoiler)

The story, very generally, begins with the world ending, and we get narratives from three different women (view spoiler) tracking their lives and challenges as they fight to survive. All three are orogenes, a sort of stone mage. The world-building in this book is well-done and well-thought out, with more of a sci-fi than fantasy feel. There also seemed a strong parallel between the discrimination against orogenes to real-life discrimination in our own world.

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Feb 27, 2019 Ketutar Jensen rated it it was amazing

I hate them so much right now. I hate them so much I'm ready to go and seek out their correspondence in this world and finish them off.

This is one of the best books I've ever read. it's so good I don't want to put it down, but so "mäktig" I have to. Mäktig is a Swedish word used to describe food that is very rich, and filling, but it also means powerful. This is what this book is.

To me it's new and original. I have never read anything like this.

I can't say, of course, I'm a white Finnish woman ...more

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May 04, 2020 Kin rated it it was amazing

Refreshing. Refreshing, refreshing, refreshing. Everything about this book is like taking a nice big gulp of outdoors air after being stuck inside for a long time. I do have to say that I have next to no experience with sci fi, so that could be a big part of this for me, but it's not the only reason. The second-person perspective, the narrative voice, the way the narrative gets woven together from so many separate parts, the rep of all sorts, etc... It's all just refreshing.

Honestly, there are ...more

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Jun 05, 2019 Winter rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, scifi

Coming back to goodreads after being away for a while. So I'll skip the long review and just say I loved this series. So much. I don't even know where to start. It felt fresh in so many ways. From the authors voice to the characters to the world building. It came at a perfect time where i was feeling like I was reading the same sci-fi and fantasy stories with slightly different wrapping paper over and over. It was honestly one of the best series I've read in a good decade. ...more

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Apr 23, 2017 Diane Patterson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sf-f

I had a very hard time with this book at the beginning (to the point where I was wondering if I should continue), but I'm very glad I stuck it out -- this is one of the most imaginative things I've read in a while. Very affecting as well as fantastical. ...more

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