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It’s nice to see peeks of the author she will be

The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

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While reading The Inheritance trilogy, I keep having to remind myself of how much I adore the author and man, the second one – The Broken Kingdoms – does not make that easy. There’s just something really jarring about exploring this new fantasy world and then suddenly your narrator bemoans getting “dumped” by her ex-boyfriend. But I’ve read her later books and I know how freakishly talented she is. Reading these is watching her get there, and it’s a nice reminder that people don’t just fall out of the ether that way. If you’re like me and you’d forgotten where we left off, […]

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3/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

A solid freshman effort

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

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My introduction to the works of N. K. Jemisin was through her Hugo-Award-winning series The Broken Earth. It’s a series I have been pushing on friends and family since I read it last year because it is a whole nother level of OH MY GOD spectacular and deserves every ounce of praise it receives. Go read it now. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms with what one might call high expectations and was understandably somewhat disappointed. The Broken Earth sets the bar just impassably high and by reading things in this order, I’m backtracking. N. K. Jemisin is clearly gifted and only getting better […]

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2/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back

The Obelisk Gate; The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

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I finally got around to finishing N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy. I read the first book, The Fifth Season, sometime in 2016 and was mostly waiting for the next two to be published before diving back in. They are phenomenal books, if extremely bleak. However, (and take note grimdark fans) Jemisin manages to create this bleakness without raping her female characters every other page. Bonkers, I know. Survival is paramount in the Stillness. If you cannot contribute to the survival of your people, community, or family then you are just out of luck and it is entirely possible you will […]

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12/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:87 |

Now the third one is out, you can read all three in a row!

The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

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I give up on writing an intelligent, thoughtful review of this book. It has defeated me for almost two months, and I now take this opportunity to concede. Perhaps eventually I will be able to write coherently and usefully about this series, but for now, I will say that she stuck the landing, she stuck it good, and I will most certainly be revisiting the series as a whole in the future. For now, I will say that I was happy with the ending because it did what I like my endings to do. It didn’t wrap everything up in a […]

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11/14/2017 's CBR9 Review No:94 |

I expect another Hugo coming N.K. Jemisin’s way

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

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The Stone Sky is N.K. Jemisin’s stunning conclusion to “The Broken Earth” trilogy.  Books one: The Fifth Season and two: The Obelisk Gate both were awarded the Hugo Award and I expect that The Stone Sky will complete a hat trick for Jemisin by earning her a third Hugo. “The Broken Earth” trilogy examines familial bonds, both created by birth and those we choose to create.  They are a cautionary tale about what can happen when a society chooses to treat people as lesser and then takes away the humanity of the “lesser”.  Jemisin also gives warning of the potential catastrophe of exploiting the […]

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10/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

Father Earth is Angry

The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth trilogy vol. 2 by N.K. Jemisin

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The Obelisk Gate picks up where  The Fifth Season left off and continues the harrowing tale of survival in The Stillness when a fifth season (the season of death) is upon the land.  Now we learn the stakes are higher than just survival.  An ancient war has been brewing in the background for so long that not all the players are even aware one is occurring.  The fifth season has fully gripped the land.  Comms band together for mutual support and weaker comms fall, to the commless or a stronger comm.  New horrors are discovered as animals and insects adapt […]

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7/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

“Every Age Must Come to an End” is an ominous beginning

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth trilogy vol. 1 by N.K. Jemisin

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A few years ago I came across an excellent review of N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms,  book one of the Inheritance trilogy, and was instantly intrigued.  It was put on my “in case of birthday or Christmas, please buy me” list and fortunately I received it later that year.  I was blown away by Jemisin’s incredibly creative world building and could not put the book down.  The third book in the Inheritance trilogy did not hold up as well as the first two, but the series as a whole had me eagerly looking for other works by Jemisin. I received The […]

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6/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

The Obelisks are so much cooler than previously thought!

The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) by N. K. Jemisin

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Oh my goodness gang! Ms. Jemisin knocks it out of the park yet again. You know how in a lot of trilogies you assume the second book is just filler, getting everyone in place for the final act so you don’t really read it as closely? Yeah, that doesn’t happen here. This one is just as good, and arguably better than The Fifth Season. Spoilers abound below folks. Go read both first. I’ll wait, and then we can all wait impatiently for the final installment together. Also apologies in advance if I misspell anything here. I listened to the stories […]

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2/16/2017 's CBR9 Review No:14 |


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