Kindle, 466 pages
English language
Published Aug. 4, 2015 by Orbit.
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.
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 long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
I don’t like the narration in second person.
Un libro increíblemente poderoso, "The Fifth Season" es aventurero, frenético, desolador y, a pesar de estar situado en un universo ficticio, impresionantemente relevante para el día de hoy. Jemisin es una autora versátil y atenta, fácil de leer y fácil de enamorarse de su prosa. Muy recomendable.
Heavyhanded at times. Complete dismissal of laws of physics. Coincidences and Dei ex Machina and right-place-right-times that an Infinite Improbability Drive would envy. Whole lotta dying, at epic scales, which I s’pose happens when the world is ending and all but still, a little uncomfortably cavalier about it, y’know?
And yet. Jemisin can write. She tells a gripping story, builds it gracefully, keeping a fairly high constant baseline of suspense, which really shouldn’t work but it does. Her universe is well built, internally consistent even if rather fantastic; her characters we care about even if we don’t always (or ever) like. I did not read this in one sitting—work and sleep play roles in my life—but I can easily imagine myself doing so: putting the book down was not easy.
I really enjoyed it. Whatever hype you’ve heard about it, it’s true. And I’m rushing through this review because …
Heavyhanded at times. Complete dismissal of laws of physics. Coincidences and Dei ex Machina and right-place-right-times that an Infinite Improbability Drive would envy. Whole lotta dying, at epic scales, which I s’pose happens when the world is ending and all but still, a little uncomfortably cavalier about it, y’know?
And yet. Jemisin can write. She tells a gripping story, builds it gracefully, keeping a fairly high constant baseline of suspense, which really shouldn’t work but it does. Her universe is well built, internally consistent even if rather fantastic; her characters we care about even if we don’t always (or ever) like. I did not read this in one sitting—work and sleep play roles in my life—but I can easily imagine myself doing so: putting the book down was not easy.
I really enjoyed it. Whatever hype you’ve heard about it, it’s true. And I’m rushing through this review because [b:the next book|26228034|The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)|N.K. Jemisin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1441406262s/26228034.jpg|46213537] is 50cm away from me at this moment and I‘m eager to start on it. So, TTFN.
(Side note: there were times, reading about the human-caused devastation of their planet, about the ecological catastrophes, the cataclysmic-scale deaths, the walls walls WALLS surrounding each “self-reliant” community and their shunning of strangers, the survivalism and hubris and ignorance, that I found myself thinking, this must be Republican Utopia Porn. If Republicans could read, that is. Although they wouldn’t like the elements of cooperation, growth, love, and learning that we find here, nor the rather refreshing absence of jesus or any other religiogarbage.)
