The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) in The Toast

May 09, 2018 Laura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: race-racism-and-antiracism, favorites, sff

Lives up to and totally deserves all the hype. For the first ~30 pages I was a little like “oh boy how am I going to stomach this whole book?” Because it hits you *hard* with the trauma, and the marginalized-people-who-everyone-hates world-building. So even though it was really good and interesting I was also thinking “oh no.”

Well, “oh no” was right (so many feelings!! The world is so cruel in such a realistic and true way), but also it was soo engrossing and smart and bad-ass and feminist and ...more

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Sep 01, 2016 Jason Molenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016, fantasy

I'm normally not a big fantasy reader, but I heard this won the Hugo so I gave it a try. It's so good! Such a great world she's imagined and characters that feel three dimensional and complex, the cool way the story lines interconnect as the book proceeds, I'm hooked. And I'm heading right into book #2, which just came out. I think there's a book #3? And I fear it'll be long away? I have a suspicion I will be sad about that once I've finished book #2. ...more

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Jan 03, 2017 Egh rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

When I got the 100 Thousand Kingdoms everyone was raving about it and I didn't enjoy it much. I'm relieved to say that people who told me this book and series is much better than that one were right. I'm landing on three stars because this book seems like a lot of setup, not necessarily a complete stand-alone piece. So hopefully book 2 &3 will stick the landing.

if nothing else the world building is certainly very different from most fantasy world and that deserves a thumbs up. ...more

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