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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Start date: July 1, 2020

Finish date: October 1, 2020

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Jun 08, 2018 S rated it it was amazing

Shelves: s-public-library, speculative-supernatural-fantasy, 2018-and-2019, fantasy

Let me preface this by saying that I read a lot.

That's not showing off. I work in a library, so it more or less comes with the territory. I'm tempted daily, and I also frequently get asked for recommendations. I'm about the only one interested in the 'science-fiction' section, where all sci-fi, speculative, and fantasy tends to get dumped. I regularly have too many books on the go. I don't buy books unless they really stick with me, because...well, I work in a library, why should I?

So when I sa ...more

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Jan 14, 2020 Dakota rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: woc-writers-2020-challenge

This was amazing. It took a little while to get into it, because it requires non-linear thought to go with the flow of the different stories, but this book starts off with gripping, compelling character events and just gets better from there. Jemisin has done a spectacular job of creating a compelling, interesting, multilayered world and story, and as a jaded sci-fi/fantasy reader it was really referring to read something so utterly unlike anything else I've read. Can't wait to read the next one ...more

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