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One Belongs to New York Instantly, One Belongs to It as Much in Five Minutes as Five Years

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

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You know when you read a good book but you know it will just be impossible to summarize OR at least impossible to summarize well?  N.K. Jemisin’s novel, The City We Became, is one of those books.  It’s the first book in a new trilogy and now I’m bummed that I have to wait for her to finish writing book 2 and 3. But I have to give you some sort of clue of what it’s about so here goes.  New York City is alive […]

Some short stories to finish off this series.

Shades in Shadow (Inheritance Trilogy, #3.75) by N.K. Jemisin

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 2/30 I pre-ordered this and it downloaded on release day. In July 2015. I did this little collection a disservice by waiting six years to read it. I really had to do some Google-fu to refresh my memory on the events and the characters in the series. In the end, I still think I would have given it three stars, maybe 3.5, but it wouldn’t have been so much frickin’ work. (The Awakened Kingdom, the novella Jemisin released as […]

Slight case of second album syndrome

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

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Picking up where The Fifth Season left off, Essun is in Castrima-under getting to grips with comm life and the various personalities within it,  trying to understand just what happened to Alabaster, what his relationship is to the stone eater who accompanies him, and why he wants to teach her to manipulate the obelisks that litter the sky. Meanwhile, we pick up her daughter Nassun’s thread and follow her journey, alongside the father who killed her younger brother for his orogeny, as he takes her […]

“Who carved a mountain into a cathedral?”

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

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  If you are missing the political machinations and betrayals of Game of Thrones and aren’t sure if GRRM is going to finish the last book before he shuffles off his mortal coil, you should definitely check out The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. It has all of that AND it’s a finished series so no waiting for the next installment. This book is the first of a trilogy, plus a novella and a book of short stories. The story follows Yiene, whose mother was the heir […]

What’s the plural of apocalypse?

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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So insanely readable that I devoured it in a day, The Fifth Season is the fantastic opener to a really  interesting trilogy that’s a dystopian mix of sci fi and fantasy – I am ridiculously excited to get my hands on the next part. In a world where the apocalypse has already happened – quite a few times, actually – and is littered the ruins of the dead civilisations that came before them, those that remain know that each geological incident could preface the next […]

Cuisine des Mémoires and other stories

How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

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LeVar Burton is a national treasure. As the originator of Reading Rainbow, Geordi LaForge on Star Trek TNG and the creator of one of my favorite podcasts, LeVar Burton Reads, I have spent a not insignificant amount of time with him, and for that I’m grateful to him. And now, I have to take it a step further because he introduced me to the amazing creativity of N.K. Jemisin. He first read “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball” for a live event and interviewed Jemisin […]



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