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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Start date: November 1, 2015

Finish date: November 30, 2015

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Mar 01, 2017 Mackay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

Wow.
Let's start with the end of the world...
The Fifth Season is Death
Jemisin is soooo much more than a "mere" genre writer. Her imagination is rivaled only by her command of all a novelist's tools, and she takes enormous risks which pay off in startling ways (I'd never think I'd like a book narrated in second person, but here, for her reasons, it works). There's no way I can sum up the plot without spoilers, and spoiling it would be a crime against literature. This book blew my mind, even mor ...more

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Aug 15, 2017 Crystal rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi, dystopian-post-apocalyptic, best-audio-books

I have complex feelings about this book, but overall it was excellent. It has a super interesting premise, albeit confusing at times, and I couldn't put it down. The author did an amazing job with diversity of characters, which is very refreshing to read in the fantasy/sci-fi genre.

I found some of the character development to be a bit lacking–I just didn't care about some of them. But the way the story was written (switching between 3 time periods) helped move the story along when some of the l ...more

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Oct 03, 2017 Jessica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: listened

I think I underestimated the complexity of the world building in this book the first time I read it; pretty amazing all around. The audiobook is very good, too.

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