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It's even free of spoilers.
The bit in italics below was originally posted to my G+ stream on 2018-05-18.
I read N.K.Jemisin's The Fifth Season back in May (2018). Wow, what a great book! (It won a Hugo award, so the world already knows this.) Jemisin interweaves three storylines set at different times and places, each helping you better understand bit by bit how the world works, how unfair it is, and why it should end. For the last time. The book has absolutely fantastic worldbuilding, nice pacing, and a bunch of setting-appropriate emphatic curses.
The whole book is like a very slow moving tsunami, and only near the end do you get to see the larger picture (but not even the whole picture yet, it seems).
"The Fifth Season" is the first book in the "Broken Earth" series, so I'm happy there's more. Highly recommended unless you prefer having every question answered within a single book.
By now I've read the second book, and am ready to plunge into the third and final one. The second book has been great, too. Great characters, the plot rolls on unstoppably, lots of heart-wrenching scenes as well as fun, interesting turns and reveals... This sequel never disappointed. I especially like how this series portrays communities, very much acknowledging that communities don't just are, they are built and nurtured. And this fact - or: these processes and activities - are worthy of attention and reflection.
The bit in italics below was originally posted to my G+ stream on 2018-05-18.
I read N.K.Jemisin's The Fifth Season back in May (2018). Wow, what a great book! (It won a Hugo award, so the world already knows this.) Jemisin interweaves three storylines set at different times and places, each helping you better understand bit by bit how the world works, how unfair it is, and why it should end. For the last time. The book has absolutely fantastic worldbuilding, nice pacing, and a bunch of setting-appropriate emphatic curses.
The whole book is like a very slow moving tsunami, and only near the end do you get to see the larger picture (but not even the whole picture yet, it seems).
"The Fifth Season" is the first book in the "Broken Earth" series, so I'm happy there's more. Highly recommended unless you prefer having every question answered within a single book.
By now I've read the second book, and am ready to plunge into the third and final one. The second book has been great, too. Great characters, the plot rolls on unstoppably, lots of heart-wrenching scenes as well as fun, interesting turns and reveals... This sequel never disappointed. I especially like how this series portrays communities, very much acknowledging that communities don't just are, they are built and nurtured. And this fact - or: these processes and activities - are worthy of attention and reflection.
