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The Stone Sky: “Different choices have always been possible.”

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

April 18, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

The Stone Sky is the third and last installment in the Broken Earth Trilogy. This book is split between Essun and Nassun in the current day and Hoa in the past, which gives us context for how we got to where we are. We know that Essun and Nassun are on a collision course of sorts – they have the same general goal in mind, but with vastly different outcomes. Regardless, this Season and the Seasons in general cannot continue if humans are to survive. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin ·
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The Obelisk Gate: Things get worse before they get better (I hope)

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

April 1, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

Possible spoilers for The Fifth Season – Proceed with awareness. The Obelisk Gate is the second book in the Broken Earth Trilogy. In this installment, we follow two main stories – Essun and Nassun after each has arrived at a new, but separate, comm and the years that follow. Nassun is Essun’s daughter. Nassun had been taken by her father, Jija, after he murdered her little brother, Uche. We heard of them in the first book, but we officially meet them as they travel south […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin ·
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The Fifth Season: Funny how oppression is never the answer that the oppressors hope it is.

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

February 21, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

A good friend gave me this book a few years ago as a very strong recommendation for the series. Intending to read it right away, I immediately purchased the rest of the trilogy. Then they sat on my shelf for a while. After reading Amina Al-Sirafi, I wanted to dig into Shannon Chakraborty’s trilogy. So, off I skipped to the local bookshop only to find that they had 1 and 3 in stock, but #2 would take a few weeks to arrive. Rather than be […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin ·
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Not your typical Mother-Daughter story.

The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin

July 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – Award Winner (2017 Hugo Award)   This is the second book in the Broken Earth Triology, and picks up immediately after book one. Basically this entire review will be a spoiler, if you haven’t read the first book… sooo… stop here if you haven’t read them, but want to?). As the disaster that is this Season intensifies, Essun and Hoa (who she has learned is a stone-eater, and not a child at all) have found refuge in a community that is surviving […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, cbr11bingo, nkjemisin, theobeliskgate

kella's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, cbr11bingo, nkjemisin, theobeliskgate ·
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February 12, 2018 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

Reading this book was a bit of a chore. Not because N.K. Jemison’s work isn’t amazing, but because I checked it out as an ebook from my library, not realizing that I couldn’t renew it if other people had it on hold and it would be automatically returned before I could finish it. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did its predecessor, The Fifth Season, but it is still an intense read that gives us a deeper understanding of Essun, the main […]

https://cannonballread.com/2018/02/72797/

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #CBR10, #NKJemison

Bea Pants's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #CBR10, #NKJemison ·
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