Painful and powerful.-Kirkus (starred review) Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.-Entertainment Weekly Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right now.
blowing me away.-The Verge Intricate and extraordinary.-New York Times on The Fifth Season Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: theyre simply not available, in this world or ours. Jemisin maintains a gripping voice and an emotional core that not only carries the story through its complicated setting, but sets things up for even more staggering revelations to come.-NPR Books on The Fifth Season Brilliant.gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists.-Washington Post Incredible, wildly original. one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory.-RT Book Reviews (five stars) Astounding. Jemisins work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy.-Guardian on The Fifth Season books have abstracted real-life race issues in a way that serves to magnify the truth.-Washington Post has pretty well conquered with the Broken Earth.-The New York Times A must-buy.breaks uncharted ground.-Library Journal (Starred review) on The Fifth Season A real tour de force. Shes that good.-John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal n ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesnt be apparent till toward the end. establishes as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation.
She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed. For Nassun, her mothers mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Book Synopsis Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row. About the Book Includes excerpt book by author from The hundred thousand kingdoms and The shadow by Lila Bowen.
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