Fee’s Reviews > The Fifth Season > Status Update

It was a rough go at first but I’m starting to understand the world she builds. It has aspects of our own world in terms of race, class, genetics, science but the platform she puts this fantasy makes it extremely compelling. I’m at the “can’t put it down, can’t stop talking about” phase of the book.

The book starts with a women (Essun) who is Orogeny -(considered a low caste, deadly and dangerous racial group). When her husband learns their son has powers that can destroy people and things, he kill him.