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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Start date: November 16, 2017

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Jan 14, 2021 Shelby rated it really liked it

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Pretty good, good world building, good characters that you root for, it was nice! I thought going into it it would be amazing (spot the hugo award) but it wasn't as good as I had hoped for. I found myself comparing it to 'The Name of the Wind' same genre, and found that the world building was not as good as Rothfulss'.

It was a slow burn, there wasn't a point in the book where I truly felt that I was incapable of putting the book down, but there were points where I wanted to continue reading on ...more

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