Loved itThis is a brilliant, brilliant book. I think N.K. Jemisin is a master of her craft. The world building and this magic system that feels so grounded, it feels very realistic, but it is also a hard-hitting book.
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The Fifth Season (2015)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN. IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL and long-dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. This description comes from the publisher.
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- 9780356508191
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- 498 pages
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Loved it
NeutralAlthough I do have to say if you're going to be upset with Fifth Season, I would have rather put up there one of the middle books or the end books rather than the first one.
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Loved itFor example, when I read Fifth Season, the plot twists in there were amazingly foreshadowed, and if you reread the book, you will see all the foreshadowing.
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Loved itIn particular, The Fifth Season is one of my favorite books of all time. It's in my top 10 fantasy releases.
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Loved itI love station 11 I love the fifth season
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Not a fanbecause these are horrifically written it's just and by horrific they written I mean the plot Is Not Great the characters are atrocious
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Loved itEverything you've heard about this series is true. It is fantastic. The world building I loved so much.
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Loved ita book that manages to create an entire world an entire universe in an incredibly small number of words and chapters the fifth season was for me the standout novel in the trilogy
Loved iti particularly love this first book but i really think that you have to read the entire trilogy and i recommend reading them back to back to back because in my opinion it really reads like one cohesive story and you will get the best experience if you just fly through them all
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Loved itthis is beautiful and we follow a couple of perspectives and everything comes together at the end i really don't want to say anything else it is pretty grim it's not a fun read per se but it was it was beautiful i was hooked from the first chapter
Loved itI love physically reading Jemisin prose, but then the voices that she gave people that I never gave them voices in the sass and the banter in the internal banter with the different point of views. I was just like, this is perfection. This is even better somehow.
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Loved itIt is so clever and like I have not read a book that was plotted so cleverly in such a long time. I loved it so much. Oh, I love the characters, love the world, love the plot, everything about it.
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Loved itI obviously really love the fifth season and all the broken Earth Series in general
Loved itwhen I read the first three chapters of this book I was like this is the most incredibly written book I've ever read
Loved itas far as single books one of the best twists I would say that's the fifth season by NK jemisin I'm gonna talk about the series more in a future award categories I'm not gonna go into it a ton but oh man
Loved itIt was great and the way that these three main characters stories are woven together and I didn't see it coming about how they were connected by the end. I just This was so well structured and written.