Read this entire series. If you haven't, go buy a copy right now.Buy seven extras and gift them to a parent or sibling to have them pass the copies out and form a bookclub.If they already have a bookclub, join the bookclub. Seduce everyone with baked goods and jokes. Then take over the book club. Call yourself the Book Baron or Supreme Reader if this is your thing. Pick this book as the next choice. They will love it, they will thank you, and they will likely shower you in gifts of baked goods.

Really good.N. K. Jemison’s 2016 Hugo Award winner’s world building is as good as Frank Herbert or Ursula LeGuin and with magic rules as well thought out as Brandon Sanderson and with an intimate talent for complex characterization as good as Octavia Butler.All comparisons aside, Jemisin’s work is wildly original and she has created a far future fantasy that provokes thought and entertains. Evoking Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth, this is far, far in the future (if it is even Earth) where some peop...

dnf @ 30% because i could not figure out what the hell was going on. i'm not smart enough for this one lol

—for all those who have to fight for the respect others are given without question. I'm re-reviewing this because I accidentally used up a full page of my last essay ranting about it and now I really desperately want to reread. (It's September 8th, why are all of my books still in California.)The fact that this series won the Hugo award three years running should very quickly establish its degree of quality but I'm going to quickly point out the things that Wowed Me anyway. The writin

Rating: 4.5 stars

"Every time the earth moves, you will hear its call." The Fifth Season is another interesting experiment by N. K. Jemisin. And while I would argue that it has been tremendously overrated, it is still overall a pretty good book with a lot of qualities. It reads more like an unpolished, interesting debut novel than an award-winning piece by an experienced author, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.Let’s start with the criticism, why don’t we? (That is my attempt at paraphrasing the book’s o

O.M.G.Post-apocalyptic mixed with Fantasy? My two favorite genre? Hell yes! This was such a good read! The writing does take some time to get used to (one section the narration is told at the second person for example!) but I didn't find it slow and found myself immersed into it very quickly but more time was clearly put into it than the average Fantasy so it might be why it can take a bit more time to get used to it!Totally recommend it and I'm planning on reading the whole trilogy pretty much

I picked this one up because I greatly enjoyed Jemisin's Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, but this novel was even better. Jemisin blew me away with her world-building and beautiful writing. It's the tale of an alternate earth called the Stillness, which is plagued by constant seismic activity. This leads to frequent near-extinction events called "Fifth Seasons" that keep humans on their toes. The evidence of past civilizations litters the planet -- ruined cities, incomplete 'stonelore' handed down fro...

This book is beautiful, this book is smart, this book is oh so heartbreaking, and this book is a masterpiece. This is one of those books that make you feel absolutely guilty for giving out five stars to other books. This book is unlike anything I've ever read, but it felt so seamlessly woven. This book mirrors the society we live in today and makes you think about all those uncomfortable topics you'd rather ignore and pretend do not exist. This book has the best representation I've ever read in

"Earthfires and rustbuckets." "I sleep like an earthshake" I haven't read a ton of award-winning books, but out of the handful I've read, one rarely lives up to the expectations. Maybe it's because of the hype, or the above average expectations, but the result is almost always the same. So, imagine my surprise when The Fifth Season made it beyond my wildest expectations: a books worthy of all the hype, second person present tense narrative notwithstanding. "Winder, Spring, Summer, Fall;

Deleted my old 4 star review. I didn’t like it so much this time. Not rereading the rest. Unhauling. The end! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

Edit, 10:52 pm, tonight. :) N.K. Jemisin is the WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) Was there any doubt?Old Review (from a few hours ago):Re-Read 8/20/16, the day the Hugo Awards Ceremony is to take place for the novel I voted for. :) Coincidentally, I'll be reading the sequel tomorrow. :)So was it as good as I remember? Actually, better. But that's mostly because I'm in on the trick and the secret of the MC is is laid bare and the whole novel then becomes a character exploration for me as we...

Yes, 5 full stars for this one because it's everything I want in a fantasy book. I will explain.I don't read fantasy and sci-fi because I like magic or space ships or laser swords or what have you. I read fantasy and sci-fi because I want to see something new, and there's no other genre that allows this much freedom of imagination, this much flexibility and bending of reality and this much room for "what ifs". The genres are ripe with tropes and cliches even so, and I'm at that point where it pa...

4.5/5 StarsI will not start my review for this book with some praises. Don’t get me wrong, this is an amazing book (oh shit I just did), but I’d like to start this review instead by saying patience is virtue is apt here. “For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.” This book and my review will be dedicated to all of you.The Fifth Season, the first book in the Broken Earth trilogy is, in my opinion, a book that will truly require some

New updated review. I'm told N.K. Jemisin won YET another ((probably) deserved) Hugo Award this year. Her third in a row. As some of yaz are probably well aware of, I'm not fond of her writing style nor of her bullshit books. What can I do? I just don't like her stuff. Anyways, where was I? Oh yes, when I tried to read the first installment of "The Broken Earth", I just failed to finish it and ended up throwing the bastard on the barbie along with some shrimps and prawns... ruining both the shri...

A beautiful haunting tale told in the way that I love, with little regard for the linear illusion of time. And the voices, oh the three voices.

What the motherfucking fuck

💀 DNF at 38%. Please someone give me a medal.The gif is strong is this one. Consider your little barnacled selves warned.This was such a delightful read.Just kidding. Bloody stinking fish, this was painful as shrimp. 99,99999% of you People of Despicable Book Taste (PoDBT™) thought this was deliriously mind-blowing and scrumptiously original and fantabuliciously well written and all that crap, which can mean only one thing: you I read the book terribly wrong. Strange. That has rarel

this book started off a bit rocky and slow, but i am so relieved that it eventually grew on me. i didnt love it as much as i wanted to (mainly because i misread the synopsis, so this was completely different than i thought it would be) but there is still much that i enjoyed about it. - this story blends both sci-fi AND fantasy. i know many books are lumped into the SFF genre, but this is the first story where both elements are present and coexist seamlessly. - the representation in this is endle...

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