eBook, 512 pages

Published July 10, 2015 by Orbit.

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(4 reviews)

A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.

IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun.

IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.

IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL and long-dormant wounds rising up to fester.

This is the Stillness, a land familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

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6 editions

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

Good world building, long and leaves you hanging

Without spoiling, I would mention that this is 512 pages long...and then just sort of stops and doesn't really give you a feel for what the "big problem" is that you'll want to see battled against in the next volume. So a little dissatisfaction with that.

I did enjoy the way the author played with the timeline, the different voices used, and the pairing of characters that kept me from being confused about who was who

The world-building was great - it supplied just enough "weird land" to be unusual, but really it was focused on the different groups of people and how they viewed and interacted with one another.

If this is your favorite genre and you don't mind feeling the need to finish the series, you'll enjoy.

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

Beautifully written but relentlessly bleak

I wanted to give this five stars - it's beautifully written, the worldbuilding is incredible and is incredibly fresh and imaginative where so much fantasy feels derivative, while still feeling grounded and believable. The narrative device of telling the three separate stories and only slowly revealing the clues to how they connect was incredibly well executed.

But while I couldn't put this down and tear myself away from the next twist or revelation, I realised I wasn't actually enjoying reading it that much. The story starts with the murder of a child and if anything only gets heavier from there. The book is an examination of what can drive someone to keep going when everything and everyone they love is taken from them again and again, and how they can continue living with themselves when they have been forced to do horrific things to survive. It's an incredible book, but …

reviewed Viides vuodenaika by N.K. Jemisin (Murtunut maailma, #1)

Review of 'Viides vuodenaika' on 'Goodreads'

Suhtaudun usein vähän nihkeästi fantasiatrilogioihin. Haluanko sitoutua lukemaan koko trilogian? Tästä Viides vuodenaika -romaanista alkavan Murtunut maailma -trilogian kohdalla epäilyksiä ei kuitenkaan ollut, sillä N. K. Jemisinin nimi on sen verran vetovoimainen.

Murtunut maailma on nimittäin ensimmäinen trilogia, jonka jokainen osa on palkittu scifi- ja fantasiapiireissä arvostetulla Hugo-palkinnolla. Viides vuodenaika onkin todella lupaava alku. Jemisin on sekä mainio tarinankertoja, että erinomainen maailmanrakentaja.

Aloitetaan maailmasta. Tapahtumat sijoittuvat mantereelle, joka on hyvin tuliperäinen ja todella epäluotettava. Vain hullu asuisi saarella, koska saaren yli voi koska tahansa pyyhkäistä tsunami, eikä pakopaikkaa ole. Elämää ohjaavat kirjaimellisesti kiveen hakatut säännöt, joita noudattamalla voidaan luottaa siihen, että kun seuraavan kerran tulee Vuodenaika – siis vähintään puoli vuotta, joskus vuosikausia, kestävä vulkaaninen talvi – ihmiskunnalla on ainakin jotain mahdollisuuksia selvitä. Maan nimi on Tyynimaa; sen asukkailla on viiltävä ironian taju.

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