Title: The Broken Earth Trilogy Pdf The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky
Author: N. K. Jemisin
Published Date: 2018-10-02
Page: 1424
"Who knew a post-apocalyptic fanatsy could forge a new path over well-trodden ground while still packing an emotional punch?"―Parade on The Stone Sky"The Stone Sky ... establishes [Jemisin] as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation... It's that good. She's that good."―John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal on The Stone Sky"[N. K. Jemisin] has pretty well conquered [the epic fantasy scene] with the Broken Earth."―The New York Times on The Stone Sky"Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful."―Kirkus (starred review) on The Stone Sky"Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home."―Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Stone Sky"The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy is geologic. These books are a revolution in which I want to take part."―NPR Books on The Stone Sky"Incredible, wildly original . . . [The Stone Sky is] blowing me away."―The Verge on The Stone Sky"A real tour de force . . . one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory."―RT Book Reviews (five stars) on The Stone Sky"The powerful conclusion to the "Broken Earth" trilogy will please the author's many fans with its fully developed world, detailed settings, and complex characters."―Library Journal on The Stone Sky"N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is the best new speculative fiction I've read in a long time . . . Intricate [and] captivating."―Literary Hub on The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for both The Obelisk Gate and The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.
This complete collection would be a great gift for any occasion and includes The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky.
This is the way the world ends for the last time...
I may not get to the third book The first novel was brilliant, a tour de force of world-making. True, the second-person pronouns confused me but as the three narratives converged toward the end it all made sense.Now I find this convention tiring in the extreme.... and confusing. She killed Alabaster? I didn't pick that up. Essun is 'you' and Syenite is 'she'? The characters are often vibrant but I lose track of who is who.And maybe there's a bit of shark-jumping in the Obelisk Gate as 'magic' is introduced, the 'silver', inconsistent powers that are all over the map, murders that get breezed over. It all has become a bit much for me.Even better than expected. I saw so much hype about these books that I wondered how it could possibly live up to the accolades?But it was even better than I had hoped. Jemisin's world-building is meticulous; The Stillness is sufficiently earth-like to be easily imagined yet different enough to engage one's imagination. And the books are still very much character-driven. One comparison to the Broken Earth Trilogy would be the movie Cloud Atlas-- a story where characters' lives inter-twine across multiple time frames. This is intelligent fiction, where multiple hero's journeys combine with gradually unfolding unveiling of mysteries. Reading the whole trilogy is almost akin to growing up; the reader sees the same subjects but understands them more as the tales progress. Another comparison would be the complexity of the Fire and Ice series (AKA Game of Thrones) but with layers of complexity exploring privilege and prejudice. Topics of racism, gender, and class divisions are explored in a thorough and complex manner: exploring not just how people hate, but why they do so. On top of all those layers add themes of ecology and (not kidding) geology. Somehow, this all comes together as a page turner. And finally, IMO, the ending was perfect. Conclusions are the hardest part of fiction writing so I've been repeatedly disappointed reading novels that don't end as well as the rest of the book. But on this whole trilogy, Jemisin scores a touchdown at the end. There is going to be a film adaptation, and I'm a bit concerned that nothing cinematic can live up to the incredible experience of 'seeing' the Broken Earth books in my imagination.I don't like it. This series received a ton of great reveiws and awards. I ordered with anticipation of a great read. Fifteen pages in the narration switches to second person.I don't care for second person. I find it annoying. $25 wasted.Maybe I'll give it a shot someday, but I've got enough things to do and too many things I can't control that I find annoying. There's no reason to invite another pain to the party.
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