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This story is like a giant boulder (maybe one of those glacial erratics): it gets rolling slowly, and ominously, and it gradually picks up more and more speed until I was completely unable to set it down. (I'll be honest and say it wasn't really a five star read until the ending. What a powerful ending. I'm really glad I don't have to wait for the next book to be published - props to me for waiting for the full series to be finished!)
There's a lot of mineral content here so I thought the boulder ...more
There's a lot of mineral content here so I thought the boulder ...more
This sounds like a fascinating series with some intriguing worldbuilding, but then I heard that (view spoiler) and I'm ouuuuut. Maybe someday I'll be in a frame of mind where I want to read that in fiction, but that day is not this day.
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Someone I respect for clear reading comprehension, humanity, lack of pretension, vocabulary, and knowing her own likes/dislikes for topics ranging from philosophy to supermarket trashy reading said this was amazing. I paid attention.
She is right. This puts you in a broken world and you slowly piece together what's happening and more importantly, what happened to cause this. It does jump back and forth which can make me impatient, since if I get invested in a storyline then an interruption withou ...more
She is right. This puts you in a broken world and you slowly piece together what's happening and more importantly, what happened to cause this. It does jump back and forth which can make me impatient, since if I get invested in a storyline then an interruption withou ...more
Mar 09, 2025
Punk
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it was amazing
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A global catastrophe, a people who can control rock and lava and must hide who they are or be enslaved—or killed—and a story that starts out like fantasy, turns into the kind of science fiction where advanced technology left behind by earlier civilizations might as well be magic, and then circles back around to magic. Just as this is both science fiction and fantasy at once, the tenor of the second person POV similarly slides back and forth over the course of the series, telling two stories with
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Very different kind of fantasy than I’ve been reading. Fascinating world created by Jamison.
Aug 09, 2015
Megan
marked it as to-read
Jan 08, 2016
Jain
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really liked it
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american-literature,
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