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reviewed The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #1)

N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season (Paperback, 2015, Orbit)

A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.

IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the …

Review of 'The Fifth Season' on 'Goodreads'

Excellent world building, compelling and complicated characters, and all too reflective of real world issues. The only complaint I have is that the pacing of the reveals at the end of the book don't quite jive with the information provided earlier(some of the twists are revealed earlier, but the pacing towards the end behaves more like they're last-minute revelations), and the tone is probably a bit bleak for some readers.