Ximo reviewed El portal de los obeliscos by N. K. Jemisin (La tierra fragmentada, #2)
Buena continuación
5 stars
Aunque en cierto modo cambia el modo en el que estaba relatando la historia, sigue manteniendo el nivel.
""Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world. For more from N.K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades …
""Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world. For more from N.K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) Dreamblood Duology The Killing Moon The Shadowed Sun The Broken Earth The Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk Gate"--
"Essun--once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger--has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power--and her choices will break the world"--
Aunque en cierto modo cambia el modo en el que estaba relatando la historia, sigue manteniendo el nivel.
Une fois n’est pas coutume, alors que j’enchaîne rarement deux romans d’une même série, j’ai lu les 3 tomes des livres de la Terre fracturée à la suite !
L’intrigue initiée dans les deux premiers tomes se poursuit, on suit toujours trois histoires :
Une fois n’est pas coutume, alors que j’enchaîne rarement deux romans d’une même série, j’ai lu les 3 tomes des livres de la Terre fracturée à la suite !
L’intrigue initiée dans les deux premiers tomes se poursuit, on suit toujours trois histoires :
J’ai beaucoup aimé, de nouveau, ce 3e tome. Il est différent des autres car, là où les premiers tomes s’adressaient à nous comme si nous connaissions déjà la terre fracturée, celui-ci s’adresse à nous tantôt en familiers de cette Terre (pour Nassun et Essun) ou pour nous expliquer les origines même qui ont conduit à l’apparition des saisons (pour Hoa). Les différents arcs narratifs se referment, et les multiples questions que nous pouvions avoir trouvent toutes des réponses. On pouvait en avoir déviné certaines, mais beaucoup sont étonnantes, à la fois plus logiques et plus complexes que ce que j’aurais pu imaginer.
Personne n'a réellement envie d'affronter le fait que le monde est ce qu'il est par la faute d'ancêtres si arrogants, si égocentriques qu'ils ont cherché à réduire en esclavage la planète même.
J’ai trouvé fascinante l’histoire de Syl Anagyst, leur démesure et leur orgueil, une société coupable de génocide, mais aussi d’une course à la puissance qui leurs a fait perdre leurs derniers repères moraux… et a abouti à la catastrophe. Je pensais que le Père-Terre n’était qu’une expression générique, symbolique, religieuse… et que la perte de la Lune avait eu des conséquences purement physiques… et je trouve bien plus intéressant ce que NK Jemisin en a fait, comme une revisite du mythe de Gaïa. Cela nous donne des perspectives bien plus vertigineuse…
Pour tout lecteur qui, comme moi, aura vite fait de faire le parallêle entre cette fabuleuse trilogie et la crise écologique actuelle dont notre société est pleinement responsable, cette lecture donne des perspectives vertigineuses… Faut-il se féliciter que nous ne soyons pas, encore, Syl Anagyst, ou s’émouvoir que nous traitions déjà la Terre comme ils ont traité le Père-Terre, et certains humains commes ils ont traité les orogènes et les mangeurs de pierre ?
À ceux qui ont survécu : Respirez. Voilà. Encore une fois. Bien. Vous êtes doués. Et même si vous ne l'êtes pas, vous êtes vivants. C'est une victoire.
Il est rare que j’enchaîne les romans (j’aime bien varier mes lectures), mais là je n’avais qu’une envie : connaître la suite… et je peux même déjà vous dire qu’au moment où j’écris ces lignes, j’ai déjà bien entamé le troisième et dernier tome de la trilogie de la Terre facturée !
Le monde de la Terre fracturée n’est plus autant un mystère pour nous, lecteurs. Nous savons désormais qu’il s’agit bel et bien de la Terre, et donc que nous lisons un roman de SF postapocalyptique et pas juste une œuvre de fantasy.
Le roman propose toujours de suivre trois personnages principaux (mais plus à égalité). Deux héroïnes principales se dégagent, Essun et sa fille Nassun, alors que les chapitres sur Schaffa ne sont là que pour aider à la narration et à la compréhension globale. On retrouve également bon nombre de personnages secondaires du tome précédent …
Il est rare que j’enchaîne les romans (j’aime bien varier mes lectures), mais là je n’avais qu’une envie : connaître la suite… et je peux même déjà vous dire qu’au moment où j’écris ces lignes, j’ai déjà bien entamé le troisième et dernier tome de la trilogie de la Terre facturée !
Le monde de la Terre fracturée n’est plus autant un mystère pour nous, lecteurs. Nous savons désormais qu’il s’agit bel et bien de la Terre, et donc que nous lisons un roman de SF postapocalyptique et pas juste une œuvre de fantasy.
Le roman propose toujours de suivre trois personnages principaux (mais plus à égalité). Deux héroïnes principales se dégagent, Essun et sa fille Nassun, alors que les chapitres sur Schaffa ne sont là que pour aider à la narration et à la compréhension globale. On retrouve également bon nombre de personnages secondaires du tome précédent (Tonkee, Hoa, Lerna, Albâtre, Antimoine, etc.).
Albâtre a déclenché la cinquième saison, plongeant la terre fracturée dans un long hiver qui durera quelques années. Certains commencent à comprendre qu’il s’agira d’une saison exceptionnellement longue, 1 000 ans, voire 10 000 ans, prophétisent certains… ce qui compromettrais la survie même des humains.
Essun a perdu la trace de sa fille, et donc toute raison de continuer sa route. La cinquième saison est déclarée, il lui faut envisager de se poser… ce qu’elle va faire à Castrima une comm’ atypique, vestige d’une civilisation disparue installée dans une géode géante. À Castrima, les artefacts et la technologie fonctionnent à l’orogénie. C’est donc devenu une comm‘ atypique puisqu’elle héberge en son sein tant des fixes que des orogènes ou des mangeurs de pierre. Nassun a été amenée par son père après que ce dernier ait tué son petit frère à mains nues. Dans ce roman, on revient sur ces évènements, ce qui permet de mieux les comprendre, et de mieux comprendre ce qui a poussé Jija a s’enfouir avec Nassun : pour trouver une comm’ qui saura la « soigner » de son orogénie.
Ce deuxième tome apporte à peu près autant de nouvelles questions qu’il donne de réponses :
Sur la nature de l’orogénie d’abord. On comprend que la manière dont l’Empire du Sanze et le Fulcrum l‘utilisent pour endoctriner les fixes comme les géneurs, et pour imposer leur vision du monde et formater les esprits. Sur les mangeurs de pierre, qu’on découvre plus complexes, et plus humains, qu’on ne s‘y attendait… Sur ce qui a causé l‘apparition des saisons, et le début de la guerre entre les hommes et le Père-Terre. Sur les obélisques enfin, sur leurs possibilités comme sur leurs origines.
J’ai, de nouveau, beaucoup apprécié ce deuxième tome. J’ai beaucoup aimé, notamment, l’émergence à Castrima d’une utopie via la volonté de vivre ensemble pour transcender les différences. C’est loin d‘être parfait ni simple, mais cela apporte beaucoup d’espérance dans un monde qui apparaissait particulièrement rigide, et qui, en saison, aurait pu risquer de ne privilégier que du pur survivalisme.
La Terre fracturée gagne en complexité… mais il donne aux lecteurs de nouvelles clés de compréhension qui, je n’en doute pas, permettront de finir la trilogie en beauté.
Another solid sequel, better than most sequels. Again well crafted but the viewpoint characters aren't my favorite so I stop the rating at a 3.5
Another solid sequel, better than most sequels. Again well crafted but the viewpoint characters aren't my favorite so I stop the rating at a 3.5
As with the first book in this trilogy, I read this obsessively, this time a bit better prepared for the sudden transitions in viewpoint/time/space, but still confused enough to keep it interesting, and this world and cast of characters (species) just gets weirder but not at the expese of the feels. I have no idea what to expect in the finale, but that's next on my reading list.
As with the first book in this trilogy, I read this obsessively, this time a bit better prepared for the sudden transitions in viewpoint/time/space, but still confused enough to keep it interesting, and this world and cast of characters (species) just gets weirder but not at the expese of the feels. I have no idea what to expect in the finale, but that's next on my reading list.
Mientras que no tiene la frenética energía del primer libro, "The Obelisk Gate" es una maravilla. Se revelan secretos, se crean relaciones, se rompen corazones, y la historia de Essun y su familia en su intento por sobrevivir a esta temporada continúa siendo una de las mejores cosas que he leído en 2021.
Mientras que no tiene la frenética energía del primer libro, "The Obelisk Gate" es una maravilla. Se revelan secretos, se crean relaciones, se rompen corazones, y la historia de Essun y su familia en su intento por sobrevivir a esta temporada continúa siendo una de las mejores cosas que he leído en 2021.
is there any better genre of book than "people that don't like each other very much go on a long journey together"?
is there any better genre of book than "people that don't like each other very much go on a long journey together"?
I read The Fifth Season under special circumstances: waiting in a hospital emergency room, and enthralled by a fantasy novel about deeply felt characters facing much worse problems than I was. (I'm fine now.) The Obelisk Gate is just as good: intense and at times brutal fantasy with immediate connections to the politics, racial and otherwise, of our world, without being in any way limited by this. I didn't find the multiple viewpoints quite as clear in this volume but I still loved it.
I read The Fifth Season under special circumstances: waiting in a hospital emergency room, and enthralled by a fantasy novel about deeply felt characters facing much worse problems than I was. (I'm fine now.) The Obelisk Gate is just as good: intense and at times brutal fantasy with immediate connections to the politics, racial and otherwise, of our world, without being in any way limited by this. I didn't find the multiple viewpoints quite as clear in this volume but I still loved it.
Been having a hard time getting motivated to read recently, and this really got me back into the swing of things and excited to keep at it. Expands on the first, and excited to see where this goes in the final installment.
Exquisite.
[b:Fifth Season|19161852|The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)|N.K. Jemisin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386803701s/19161852.jpg|26115977] was epic; Obelisk Gate grows it into capital-S Saga. Complex characters, tensions within and between whom parallel the seismic ones in Jemisin’s tortured Earth and with similar cataclysmic results when faults shift. Factions whose goals you’re never quite sure you understand or trust. Imperfect people acting on incomplete knowledge, doing what they think is best—but best for whom? And what if malevolent agents are manipulating those well-intentioned people, abusing trust for their own ends? (Any similarities to post-2016 USA are purely coincidental.) (Or are they?)
There’s a whole lotta killin’ here too, as in the first one. And prejudice, crippling and so destructive. Also kindnesses, small and large, sometimes more meaningful than intended. Complicated and inconsistent love, often reluctant or baffling (then again, love is like that). Difficult circumstances bringing out the best and worst in people, sometimes all at …
Exquisite.
[b:Fifth Season|19161852|The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)|N.K. Jemisin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386803701s/19161852.jpg|26115977] was epic; Obelisk Gate grows it into capital-S Saga. Complex characters, tensions within and between whom parallel the seismic ones in Jemisin’s tortured Earth and with similar cataclysmic results when faults shift. Factions whose goals you’re never quite sure you understand or trust. Imperfect people acting on incomplete knowledge, doing what they think is best—but best for whom? And what if malevolent agents are manipulating those well-intentioned people, abusing trust for their own ends? (Any similarities to post-2016 USA are purely coincidental.) (Or are they?)
There’s a whole lotta killin’ here too, as in the first one. And prejudice, crippling and so destructive. Also kindnesses, small and large, sometimes more meaningful than intended. Complicated and inconsistent love, often reluctant or baffling (then again, love is like that). Difficult circumstances bringing out the best and worst in people, sometimes all at once. A child pitted against her parents. The fate of the Earth is at stake, and that of humanity… but just what constitutes being human anyway? What if humans with attribute A consider those with attribute B less than human? (I’m no longer sure if I‘m talking about the book or our own world).
This is a series to mull over and contemplate and discuss. I could see forming a book club over it.
This series continues to be mind blowing. And so timely: “No 'voting' on who gets to be people.” Can’t wait for the final volume.
This series continues to be mind blowing. And so timely: “No 'voting' on who gets to be people.” Can’t wait for the final volume.
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award and second in the trilogy. I didn't think this book was quite as interesting as the first, but then, it's hard for a second book to live up to the first since it doesn't have that "everything's new" element of surprise. Still, there were a few new things introduced or elaborated on; we learned more about the Guardians, and a lot more about the other intelligent species present on this world beside humans, the Stone Eaters.
Like the first book, this one alternates between viewpoints of different characters. This time our three main storytellers are Essun, from the first book; Nassun, her daughter; and one of the Stone Eaters (though only a small amount from him). The book is basically a search journey, following Essun until she settles in Castrima; and Nassun, following her separate journey and eventual settling into a new home also. …
Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award and second in the trilogy. I didn't think this book was quite as interesting as the first, but then, it's hard for a second book to live up to the first since it doesn't have that "everything's new" element of surprise. Still, there were a few new things introduced or elaborated on; we learned more about the Guardians, and a lot more about the other intelligent species present on this world beside humans, the Stone Eaters.
Like the first book, this one alternates between viewpoints of different characters. This time our three main storytellers are Essun, from the first book; Nassun, her daughter; and one of the Stone Eaters (though only a small amount from him). The book is basically a search journey, following Essun until she settles in Castrima; and Nassun, following her separate journey and eventual settling into a new home also. There is a lot more detail about the world, its history and legends, its magic systems, and how life on it is affected by the Seasons of hostile climate. We also learn what it is that "angered Father earth" and caused the seasons of cataclysms to start in the first place. I'm a little less enamoured of the ancient-races-built-technological-marvels thing with the obelisks since the seem a little deus-ex-machina to me, but I'm willing to see where this goes in the third and final book of the trilogy before passing judgement.
Again I found the characters and world very interesting and detailed, but found the actual writing a little hard to get into, and I still can't put my finger on why. This isn't a book to be read quickly or with impatience, but it probably is a book I could reread multiple times and continue to get new things out of it each time. I am looking forward to picking up the concluding book and seeing how it all finally ties together and concludes.
I really like the direction this series is headed, and am delighted by the depth of the worldbuilding.
Hard to put down, for me. I was pretty invested in learning more about the various characters that I had gotten to know in The Fifth Season - Alabaster, Schaffa, Hoa, and Essun in particular. We didn't get to learn too much more about Essun's backstory, which, fine, that was all The Fifth Season was about. But it was very cool to see how Schaffa has changed and learn about Hoa as well. I also enjoyed the bits and pieces of post-apocalyptic political machinations that began to emerge. Overall, though, the book felt a little confused / lacking in focus, which was not the case for the Fifth Season. I have high hopes that the next book will, if not solve every mystery, at least end the story in a satisfying way.
Hard to put down, for me. I was pretty invested in learning more about the various characters that I had gotten to know in The Fifth Season - Alabaster, Schaffa, Hoa, and Essun in particular. We didn't get to learn too much more about Essun's backstory, which, fine, that was all The Fifth Season was about. But it was very cool to see how Schaffa has changed and learn about Hoa as well. I also enjoyed the bits and pieces of post-apocalyptic political machinations that began to emerge. Overall, though, the book felt a little confused / lacking in focus, which was not the case for the Fifth Season. I have high hopes that the next book will, if not solve every mystery, at least end the story in a satisfying way.
It's hard not to continue to come up with geological metaphors for this book. It's dense, striated, complicated, a few pockets that formed that needed shoring up, but overall a great cross section that continues to evolve.
For some reason, I didn't finish writing this before I switched books--so I've got more of a genuflection than a good reflection from the moment the cover closes.
The passions seemed a bit more equalized in this book. No forced hooks or relationships that left you wondering for their inclusion. Once again we are exposed to something more..grand in scale, sometimes we learn a few flights down but we really don't grok the wholeness. Orogenes and their "Magic", Guardians, broken Guardians, Stoneaters--maybe the making of?, Then you've got this great setup for a showdown between families that is sure to be epic. I'm curious if we'll ever know more of the past besides …
It's hard not to continue to come up with geological metaphors for this book. It's dense, striated, complicated, a few pockets that formed that needed shoring up, but overall a great cross section that continues to evolve.
For some reason, I didn't finish writing this before I switched books--so I've got more of a genuflection than a good reflection from the moment the cover closes.
The passions seemed a bit more equalized in this book. No forced hooks or relationships that left you wondering for their inclusion. Once again we are exposed to something more..grand in scale, sometimes we learn a few flights down but we really don't grok the wholeness. Orogenes and their "Magic", Guardians, broken Guardians, Stoneaters--maybe the making of?, Then you've got this great setup for a showdown between families that is sure to be epic. I'm curious if we'll ever know more of the past besides the shadows on the wall and the forgotten architecture as debris. I hope we continue to see it and maybe understand it.
Otherwise, we have the unraveling of the world and psychologies. Perhaps a way to break the cycle or to just damn it all. It's been a treat and I look forward to the final piece.