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The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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flajol
Jan 08, 2019 rated it really liked it
Shelves: science-fiction
It took me a while to get into this because of the shifts between points of view and use of present tense (which I usually hate), but once I got into the swing of the differing voices, I loved it. Great world building and great characters.

I felt a real connection with all three main characters, and I enjoyed seeing how their stories converged. This is very definitely first in a series though, and Jemisin has set up lots of questions that I hope will be answered in the next two books.

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Stelios
Jan 11, 2019 rated it liked it
Shelves: science-fiction
3 1/2 stars for now, will update when I finish the trilogy.
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