The Fifth Season

eBook, 512 pages

English language

Published Aug. 4, 2015 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-22930-2
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5 stars (9 reviews)

This is the way the world ends... for the last time.

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

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Fantasía, ciencia, steampunk, rocas y un devastador relato emocional

5 stars

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.

Review of 'The Fifth Season' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

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 …

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