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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin

Start date: May 2, 2019

Finish date: May 31, 2019

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Jan 26, 2020 Lesa Divine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: i-own, read-it, library, 2020, favorite-list, my-2023-tbr-rereads

Interesting how it all was pulled together at the end. Didn't see that coming. Very fantasy mysterious to me.
Hard to explain but I enjoyed the world. Cant wait to read book 2. ...more

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Jan 01, 2016 Cora rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kindle, fantasy, favorites, second-person, 1st-in-series, african-american-author, series

This is a hard book to summarize without revealing spoilers. Generally speaking it is fantasy dystopia about a world where seismic disaster has caused the end of the world, but we soon find out that ends are also beginnings. We follow the story of three women that are part of a society where some have the power to control the planet's seismic energy. Those with this power are needed to keep the world safe, but also feared and heavily controlled. When one such person finds her toddler son dead by ...more

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May 31, 2016 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, read-in-2016, play-book-tag, fantasy, orogene

This is the beginning of a fantasy series set in the Stillness, a world with a super continent that is frequently rocked with devastating eruptions that cause large population die offs. There is a race of humans, called orogenes, who can control and prevent earthquakes. They are feared yet needed by the main population. The book follows Essun, an adult who was an orogene in hiding now trying to find her kidnapped daughter, Seyenite, an orogene working for the Fulcrum and Damaya, an orogene in tr ...more

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