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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Start date: April 20, 2016

Finish date: April 23, 2016

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Mar 30, 2020 Stephanie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: adult-fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, diverse, black

4.5 stars rounded up...My goodness what did I just finishing reading? This book is a rollercoaster, granted it is one that builds slowly in some cases for this non-avid fantasy reader. The twists at the end though, I couldn't believe it. I had to go back and re-read multiple chapters because I just did not see the end coming. I think part of that is not having the experience of adult fantasy/science fiction blends before this book. Even not being an avid fan of the genre, I cannot deny the beaut ...more

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Feb 11, 2024 Cari rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-listened, book-club

This complex sci-fi novel - 1st in a trilogy - took me 4 tries to read, in part because it begins with a mother facing the death of her young son. And it’s only downhill from there. Jemison isn’t world-building to escape; she puts her impressive skills toward creating an earth bent on exterminating its inhabitants, a society mired in a vast system and enslaving those with power to control the earth but also destroy life around them. It would be folly to try to summarize the plot - suffice it to ...more

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Jun 14, 2018 Megan rated it really liked it

Shelves: travel, fantasy, feminist-themes, sci-fi, mmd-reading-challenge-2018, popsugar-reading-challenge-2018, book-riot-2018-read-harder, library-loans

This one is hard to describe without potentially straying into spoiler territory, so this is a fairly general review. The story is told from three different perspectives in alternating chapters; one of the viewpoints is written in second person, which I thought was an interesting way to present the story. It took me a while to get used to those chapters but I ended up liking it; I'm not sure I would've felt that way if the whole book had been written in that style though. Even though this wasn't ...more

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