Today is the day the world ends, maybe for everyone, maybe just for Essun and those in the Sanze empire. Essun doesn't really care. Her entire world ended, shattered, when she came home and found her young son brutally murdered by his father who has taken off with their daughter. To get her daughter back safely, to get revenge on her husband who murdered their son, Essun will do anything including shedding her guise as a normal human and start embracing her status as orogene, one who can wield the power of the Earth as a weapon.
On this same day, a madman has unleashed destruction on the empire of Sanze, an destructive force that has not been seen for centuries. A great rift has opened up at the heart of the continent. A Fifth Season, a season of destruction and desolation, has begun and no one knows how long it will last this time.
As Essun starts her journey, she meets with others who are unique as well. Their journeys merge and blend as they must figure out how to survive in this Season, how to find others who will not seek to destroy them for their differences but embrace them. How to help Essun find her way back to herself because she might just hold the secrets that can save or destroy them all.
This was an amazing book that deftly weaves it's story across time and lives into an incredibly deep and intricate universe. It was so easy to read, to get lost in, to lose time in..and then you blink and realize it's been hours and you aren't sure where they went. But when you do surface, you are gasping for air to reconnect with this world because the other is so rich and alive it's hard to pull back from. I'm very thankful that I discovered this amazing author and even more so that this trilogy is done so as soon as I can find more time to read for me, I can dive back into this universe. I have to find out the rest of Essun's story.
Page count: 498p/585p ytd/292,606p lifetime
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