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Everything changes in a Season

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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Sometimes the weight of expectation is enough to keep me from reading a book I truly want to read. Case in point: I’ve had NK Jemisin’s The Fifth Season on my shelf for almost a year, even though I was sooo excited when I bought my copy. The timing was right, though, since I needed a win after a bit of a streak of so-so reads, and for the most part, this book delivered. The Fifth Season begins with a prologue that introduces the world — and then breaks it.   After a cataclysmic tremor emanates from the center of […]

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3/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Everything I knew I always wanted

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

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I keep hearing things about N. K. Jemisin, but my reading list is so long. HOWEVER. Jemisin ticks so many boxes for CBR 10 Bingo – award winner, birthday, start of a series, etc that I made space. I was very surprised to find that my library had no Jemisin books in the collection, so requested a copy of The Fifth Season via interlibrary loan based on recommendations on the CBR FB page. Thank you, folks, for the excellent recommendation! This is the first book in a trilogy, with the story following three different protagonists at three different time periods. […]

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11/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

It’s All About Timing

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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Bingo Square: White Whale I attempted to read this last year because it had so many rave reviews and I also felt like it was something I should read to explore more diversity in sci-fi/fantasy.  I think I put it down a few times too often because I kept losing the thread, and combined with the portions in second person, I simply couldn’t get into it. As a result, it seemed like the perfect fit for the White Whale category. It still took me a while to get used to the second person of the narrative.  After beginning from the […]

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9/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:166 |

There’s more than one way to be human

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

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A year ago at this time, in the wake of our devastating presidential election, I reviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, two treatises on racism and oppression in America. As I read N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy, it occurred to me that her novels present a perfect fictional account of the same topic. These Hugo-Award-winning stories take place in a world where racial difference leads to oppression, exploitation, and genocide. As a result of this deep man-made fissure between peoples, the Earth itself suffers and is on the brink of […]

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11/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

YA and Fantasy Audiobook Splurge

One of Us is Lying; The Fifth Season; The 100 by Karen McManus; NK Jemison; Kass Morgan

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One of Us is Lying 1/5 Over all this is an OK mystery. The setup is that five high school students have been given detentions after school because their teacher found cellphones in their bags. When they’re in detention, one of the group, a hated webmaster and content creator of a gossip website that all the other members of the detention have been involved with before and they all have their little secrets to be protected. Well he dies when he drinks a peanut oil laced cup of water, goes into anaphylactic shock and dies. And now any one of […]

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9/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:389 |

The Mother of Fantasy

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

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Oh my goodness gang, I haven’t even started the book club selection for fantasy, but it should have been this one. It’s a little long, but it’s Oh. So. Good. I’ve heard of N.K. Jemisin for a few years, and have been wanting to give her fantasy a try as that’s a genre I’m trying to give a chance right now. Enter an audible sale, a holiday break, and then not wanting it to end so I slowed down my listening. The Fifth Season begins with the end of the world. Someone has torn the world apart in the capital […]

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1/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Scary, but so good, and so smart.

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin

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Sometimes you read a book and you’re like, the hell did I just read? And then other times you’re like THE HELL DID I JUST READ. This is the second one. This is the last novel I had to read before I could vote in this year’s Hugos. I probably wouldn’t have read it for a couple of years otherwise because the older I get and the more fantasy books I’ve got crammed all up in my head, the harder it is for me to remember details I need in order to enjoy ongoing series. In most cases, it’s easier […]

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8/20/2016 's CBR8 Review No:108 |

So good! Too bad the book ends in the middle of the action with zero resolution.

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

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This book was actually pretty great, but I knocked off a star because it didn’t have a full plot. I really think that even books that are part of a series should have some form of resolution to them so what you just finished reading feels satisfying. The Fifth Season just felt like it stopped on a random chapter. Not cool. I would recommend people wait for the next book to come out before reading this one. The premise of The Fifth Season is great. It takes place on a continent called the Stillness. Ironic since it is anything BUT […]

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10/30/2015 's CBR7 Review No:71 |


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