Bingo Square (Round 2): This is the End In this final Hugo Award winning novel of The Broken Earth trilogy, Jemisin finally takes us back to the Shattering, the beginning of the Seasons and explains exactly how the world as Essun and Nassun know it came into being. There have already been many reviews singing the praises of this trilogy so I am going to keep it short and basic. Hoa has been the narrator throughout the trilogy but in this one, he finally narrates his […]
They get better as they go!
In my reviews of book one and book two, I was pretty forthcoming with my disappointment – they were better than most, but fell far short of the greatness I knew was coming later in her career. Y’all were sweet and let me know that if I didn’t like these, I should really call the whole thing off, but for reasons that escape me I ploughed on through. And hey, I’m not totally sad I did. Maybe it’s because I don’t remember the first two […]
It’s nice to see peeks of the author she will be
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 […]
A solid freshman effort
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 […]
if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back
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 […]
Now the third one is out, you can read all three in a row!
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 […]
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