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.
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Showing posts with label N.K. Jemisin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label N.K. Jemisin. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Thursday, September 12, 2019
65:100 The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
The 2nd book in the Broken Earth Trilogy. Now we know who Essun was and how her choices have shaped her over her lifetime. She has come to Castrima and found Alabaster again and he has a task that he cannot complete and will ask her to do for him. He will train her to be his weapon, to return the Moon to Father Earth and end the Seasons and change the world forever in ways they can barely contemplate.
But what of her daughter, Nassun, who was taken by her father after he killed their son? Essun still longs to find her but fate has had other plans. Nassun walked in on her father, Jija, as he was standing over the body of her brother, Uriche, and she had almost no time to make a choice and she chose to live. That meant going off with her father wherever he led, learning to read his moods and how to manipulate him so he wouldn't kill her too for the crime of being as she was made, an orogene. Their path led them eventually to the Antartics where Jija had heard that there was still a functioning Fulcrum and a cure to make orogenes normal. What they found instead was a damaged Schaffa, who had been Essun's Guardian, who only partly remembered who he was and what his job as a Guardian was along with a small group of orogenes and few more damaged Guardians working with them. Now Nassun has a place to belong with people who can accept her for who and what she is, and Schaffa who will love her as she feels her parents should have but didn't. But this is a Season and everything is changing and there is no staying still and no going back, even to the child that Nassun was before this all began.
Wow! More compelling than the first one. Shifting between Nassun and Essun, seeing how alike they are but how time and different choices have shaped them. Beautifully woven and the characters are so rich and deep that it's hard to put down. Can't wait to read the next one.
Page count: 410p/17,835p ytd/326,530p lifetime
But what of her daughter, Nassun, who was taken by her father after he killed their son? Essun still longs to find her but fate has had other plans. Nassun walked in on her father, Jija, as he was standing over the body of her brother, Uriche, and she had almost no time to make a choice and she chose to live. That meant going off with her father wherever he led, learning to read his moods and how to manipulate him so he wouldn't kill her too for the crime of being as she was made, an orogene. Their path led them eventually to the Antartics where Jija had heard that there was still a functioning Fulcrum and a cure to make orogenes normal. What they found instead was a damaged Schaffa, who had been Essun's Guardian, who only partly remembered who he was and what his job as a Guardian was along with a small group of orogenes and few more damaged Guardians working with them. Now Nassun has a place to belong with people who can accept her for who and what she is, and Schaffa who will love her as she feels her parents should have but didn't. But this is a Season and everything is changing and there is no staying still and no going back, even to the child that Nassun was before this all began.
Wow! More compelling than the first one. Shifting between Nassun and Essun, seeing how alike they are but how time and different choices have shaped them. Beautifully woven and the characters are so rich and deep that it's hard to put down. Can't wait to read the next one.
Page count: 410p/17,835p ytd/326,530p lifetime
Friday, June 7, 2019
43:100 The City Born Great by N.K. Jemisin
Human habitations start out small, they turn into town, and then maybe into cities. Once a city is big enough though, it must be born through the efforts a midwife who will sing it into being. It's a sacred trust as there are forces out there that can't stand the thought of new life being created and will do everything possible to stop it and the midwives are few and do not always know their own power.
An interesting concept and world building short story.
Page count: 26p/10,353p ytd/321,048p lifetime
An interesting concept and world building short story.
Page count: 26p/10,353p ytd/321,048p lifetime
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
4:100 The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
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
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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