(4.5?) Way to start the year on a good note!Great end to this series, the pace was better than book two. A fascinating magic system and world building that I will now recommend to fantasy lovers!

I don't know what the hell just happened! I'm going to have to re-read the whole trilogy again next year. I'm leaving this as being my mood because I enjoyed the first two books!! Damn it! Mel ❤️

If you had the power to end the world, would you do it? Looking around, seeing the structural injustice, the corrupted power, contentment of the few and misery of the millions, would you just decide to erase or would you devote your life and try to fix it? Is humanity worth saving or is it beyond redemption?As we conclude our journey through the Broken Earth, this is the main question N.K. Jemisin invites us to ponder over. Would you side with Essun, who warped and broken, reborn under different...

3.5 starsI love the world building and depth of these characters, but I just didn't have a lot of interest in what was happening with the actual story after book one. I was hoping that would change with book three but unfortunately, the intrigue was just lost for me. I think this author is extremely talented and want to read more of her work though

Now THAT is how you do a finale...

*Spoilers*You know there's something wrong when a major character dies yet it leaves you unmoved. Having cruised through the preceding serials, I was underwhelmed by this conclusion. Not helping was the Info-dumping, likewise the glaring plot hole of the Onyx and Garnet Obelisk (read book one again to sess the inconsistency). Additionally, the author's attempts at bringing some social issues to the fore was heavy handed, which is a shame really since the reader already caught on to these nuances...

ARC provided by Hachette in exchange for an honest review.1.) The Fifth Season ★★★★★2.) The Obelisk Gate ★★★★ “Some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don't lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.” You guys, I’m speechless. I’m not sure if I’ve ever read as perfect of a conclusion as The Stone Sky. The Stone Sky easily makes my best of 2017 list, and is also without a doubt one of the most powerful masterpieces I...

Buddy read with my favorite Orogenes: Melanie & MaryJemisin has truly outdone herself with this book and trilogy. The Stone Sky, contrary to my expectation, has somehow become one of the best conclusions to a trilogy I’ve ever read, it’s simply extraordinary.My experience reading this trilogy can be summed up as if I’m on a see-saw. I loved the first book, dislike and disappointed with the second book, and then this one, I absolutely loved it. I was never bored with it and loved every single mom...

The Fifth Season: ★★★★The Obelisk Gate: ★★★★The Stone Sky: ★★★★ 1/24.5 starsStone Sky is a fitting closure for the Broken Earth trilogy and one of the most unique fantasies I have yet to read. N.K. Jemisin cemented herself as an auto-read author for me because of her wild imagination and compelling style. I honestly don’t know which book I prefer, it’s a tie between Stone Sky and the Fifth season. I’d give the trilogy a solid 4 stars. The three books feel more like one story rather than three es...

“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.” About the same quality as The Obelisk Gate, honestly, but with that STUNNING ending tacked on. I’ve talked about so much with regards to this series. Oh my god. You can always check out my reviews of The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, but I’ll give a brief summary of my thoughts. It won two Hugo awards. The characters could kill me and I’d be okay with it. The worldbuilding is i

There's really no easy way to put this, so I'll come right out and say it.This is one of the very best stories I've ever read. All together now, all three books in this trilogy, together, make up one hell of a great story.I am amazed. I cried. I was blown away by the sheer immensity of what was going on, of the implications and the revelations and the final action.Sure, we knew that one of two things must happen by the end of the second book, but I hadn't quite realized just how invested I'd hav...

This book opens at the peak of edgy grimdark with this little gem:And I will tell you everything of how, later, as the quiet of death descended, I whispered:Right now.Right now.And the Earth whispered back:Burn.Which is so melodramatic that I could only imagine Hoa dressed as a teenage goth girl and I laughed out loud.The Broken Earth is hateful trilogy of hating; so it's appropriate that book 3 emphasised that the Earth was alive and conscious and really really hated humanity. Like every other

Well here we are, at the end of maybe the most immense series I’ve ever read. These books are nothing short of extraordinary and I will repeat what I said in my previous reviews: they are a must read for sci-fi and fantasy fans.The Broken Earth series is the perfect blend of science-fiction and fantasy, with some dystopia thrown in for good measure. Since this the the final book in the trilogy, I’m not goin to put any specific book spoilers in this review, and instead talk about the series in it...

So grateful for the whole trilogy, I feel like I'm looking at the world differently. ~reminder that goodreads is affiliated with Amazon and that you should buy books local if you can~

Oh well gee, golly, gosh, let me just to review this masterpiece, no problem, easy peasy??? The further I get into a series, the harder it is for me to review each individual book because so much of my opinion relies on understanding everything that happened in the preceding books. More than usual, I find it so difficult to express what this series has made me feel. Just saying "it was amazing" or "it was mind-blowing" starts to feel repetitive & those common compliments don't really do the n

And this is how you end a trilogy. This book was quite possibly (/definitely) my most anticipated book of the year; N. K. Jemisin has yet to dissappoint me and I just love love love her brand of fantasy. I love how intricate and well thought out her worlds are and how political they are at their core while she still never ever sacrifices her story to make a point. The final installment made me appreciate the overall brilliant work she has done in creating this cruel, wonderful, amazing world eve...

5ish stars. This is an incredible series and a huge accomplishment for its author, N.K. Jemisin. It has every element of high quality fiction and, particularly, everything great about SFF. It's decidedly new age, but in a way that I don't doubt will stand the test of time. It's innovative in the way that Ursula K. Le Guin's work was innovative in the '60s and '70s (and continues to be influential today) and, maybe I'm foolish for saying this too soon, but I think it has the same potential to rea...

"I am forty thousand years old... Give or take a few millennia." "Words are too much, too indelicate, for this conversation." At long last, we are at the end of an extraordinary journey. Jemisin, yet again, has outdone her with The Stone Sky, bringing a spectacular ending to one of the best fantasy series of all time. And as usual, 'you realize belatedly,' what you don't know about Stillness is considerably more compared what you do know, even with two massive two books finished already. T

The Stone Sky left me shook.I had so many mixed feelings after finishing it (…in 2017. I’ll explain). On one hand, there had been a lot of buildup in the previous two books and I wasn’t totally convinced I liked the direction the story headed for about the first 75%. I was worried it wasn’t going to live up to my incredibly high expectations. And then some of the most truly profound scenes played out and I can still feel the emotional reverberation every time I think about it even years later. T...

Finished this last night and I felt kind of unsure about it. I really enjoyed the whole series and I couldn't put the books down until I finished so the story telling was really good. Like I said through out I didn't really like any of the parts that were in second person POV and it felt less strong to have that in there, I think it only detracted from the books. Otherwise though I really enjoyed the books, though I'm not sure how I feel about the ending. I really liked the world building and th...