Nassun is heading to Corepoint to take control of the Obelisks and end the Earth. Essun is heading to Corepoint to open the Obelisk Gate and bring Father Earth's child, the Moon, back into alignment to end the Seasons. Neither knows the other is heading there but it wouldn't matter as they both feel in their hearts that their decision is the only correct one.
Woven between their journey's is Hoa's story from the time before, a time without Seasons. We finally get the history of the world and how it came to be in the state that it is now. How humankind found the magic inside of all living things and attempted to harness it to serve them without ever considering the consequences. How he and the other stone eaters were made, how the orogenes came about, how Father Earth lost his child. All of it is revealed and how all of those things have led up to the confrontation between a mother and her child for the fate of the world.
Absolutely amazing finish to the series and I could barely put it down and basically didn't for the last 100 pages. Such a rich world with incredibly complex characters that are so human that it's easy to relate to them, to hope and fear with them, even the ones that you can't like you can still at least empathize with to some degree. No one fully good or evil, but all a mix, so human.
Page count: 445p/20,792p ytd/329,489p lifetime
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