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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Start date: July 1, 2024

Finish date: July 31, 2024

Why we're reading this: 🐉High Fantasy July🏰
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Jul 31, 2024 Jerlyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy-series

RTC but good lordy this was good

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Apr 01, 2024 jing | aperipateticbibliophile rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: i-cried, favourites, diverse-reads, page-turner, phenomenal-worldbuilding

★★★★★ (4.5)

hello?? I am floored. high fantasy tends not to compel me to pick up the next book immediately (my mind needs a break, okay?) but this one, wow. if not for an impending exam and vacation, I would have; until May, then.

as a STEM girly, the physics of the magic system was just so creatively established—it makes sense with our natural laws, which was really fucking cool. how does one just come up with such brilliancy? the hugo is definitely deserved, and I can't wait to see where the sto ...more

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Jul 23, 2019 Tshepiso rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-favourites, adult-fantasy

Read #2: January 5th, 2020

This book still slaps. I will say the emotionally traumatic scenes hit less hard on reread cause I was expecting them.

(Also, Innon is still the only good man on this world)

Read #1: July 23rd, 2019
The Fifth Season is God Tier™. Given the praise and accolades lauded to NK Jemisin over the last three years for this trilogy I expected this book to be incredibly dense and too literary for my tastes. Boy, was I wrong. The Fifth Season is approachable and so entertaining.

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