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The Obelisk Gate
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
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What Members Thought

Bee
Feb 06, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: favourite, audiobook, speculative-fiction
This series has slowly, and consistently blown me away. It is a very human story. Ms Jemisin is a damn good writer, and makes very interesting characters. I highly recommend this series.
4 likes ·   · see review
Andrew
Dec 08, 2020 rated it it was ok
Shelves: sci-fi-and-fantasy, award-winners
Everyone in this world is bipolar.

All of the main characters in this novel were emotionally labile. Every conversation was a soul-shaking, extra significant, jaw-dropping, stomach-churning, cliché-filled angst-fest. I was perpetually rolling my eyes.

I was never able to get in to the world, the writing was so melodramatic. Shame, because there was a fairly novel idea at the core of this apocalyptic fantasy, but the mechanisms of the magic system became the centerpiece of the story. Not enough the ...more
2 likes ·   · see review
tobes
Jan 05, 2021 rated it really liked it
I enjoyed this but not as much as the first one. I really just freaking hate Nessun (sp? I’m listening)’s dad
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Podussy
Oct 23, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Iztok
Nov 04, 2016 marked it as to-read
Scott Firestone
Jun 25, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Melanie Bee
Jul 03, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy
Hillary Major
Sep 01, 2017 rated it liked it
Shelves: sff-2017, 2017-sff-women
Bruce
Sep 17, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Navi
Apr 04, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: kindle, fantasy
Dea
Nov 19, 2017 rated it it was amazing
J Jarvis
Dec 06, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Kimberly
Aug 01, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: science-fiction, tbe2020
David Martin
Jan 04, 2018 marked it as to-read
Frank
Jan 15, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own
Matthew Clanahan
Sep 26, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: sff
1 like · 
Raquel
Oct 25, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy, scifi
Cody
Aug 27, 2018 marked it as to-read
Shelves: fantasy-sciencefiction
Cindy
Sep 10, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: z2018, 2024-audio
Kyle
Dec 04, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ray Tayek
Feb 14, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Jon
Jan 03, 2020 marked it as to-read
Tania
Mar 01, 2020 rated it it was amazing
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David
Sep 17, 2022 rated it it was amazing
Alison
Sep 27, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy
Josef
Nov 25, 2020 marked it as to-read
Brenda H
Jan 17, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Alex
Jun 23, 2021 rated it it was amazing
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