The Fifth Season - BookWyrm

Audiobook

English language

Published Aug. 4, 2015 by Hachette Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-4789-0083-2
Audible ASIN:: B012HQ7IPY

(2 reviews)

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

This description comes from the publisher.

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

This description comes from the publisher.

12 editions

KitKatiana9@bookwyrm.social reviewed La quinta estación by N. K. Jemisin (La tierra fragmentada, #1)

Mi opinión

5 stars

Me ha encantado. Consigue el equilibrio perfecto entre misterio y señales para dejar que vayas entendiendo las cosas a tu propio ritmo. Las tres protagonistas son muy interesantes, y el mundo y su sistema de magia es fascinante. El ritmo está muy bien manejado a lo largo de todo el libro, y el juego con los momentos y las perspectivas narrativas salió genial. Muy buen mundo y muy bien escrito, estoy deseando empezar el segundo.

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

Cool page turner

5 stars

I came upon a list of queer books and thought I'd give a try to the Fifth season. I haven't Heroic fantasy for more than a decad (apart from a book by Damasio). The book is good : well written, the way the narration is built is brilliant. In terms of representations it is very good as well, compared from what I read in the past. I enjoyed the female characters and the fact that heterosexuality or being cis isn't the norm. Yet the book is definitely speciesist : eating other animals or exploiting them is not questionned. A total page turner. I read it in four sittings, which means I spent a lot of time reading in bed haha. Personnally, I'm both grateful for this page turning effect and uneasy. For me it's totally addictive, I have no motivation to do anything else than reading what comes next. This …

I came upon a list of queer books and thought I'd give a try to the Fifth season. I haven't Heroic fantasy for more than a decad (apart from a book by Damasio). The book is good : well written, the way the narration is built is brilliant. In terms of representations it is very good as well, compared from what I read in the past. I enjoyed the female characters and the fact that heterosexuality or being cis isn't the norm. Yet the book is definitely speciesist : eating other animals or exploiting them is not questionned. A total page turner. I read it in four sittings, which means I spent a lot of time reading in bed haha. Personnally, I'm both grateful for this page turning effect and uneasy. For me it's totally addictive, I have no motivation to do anything else than reading what comes next. This kind of situation makes me feel bad as I'm unable to do others things I should be doing. This definitely has to do with me and not with the author or the book, but that said I wish these books would not have that kind of effect on me. Jacques Abeille's les Jardins Statutaires is a good example of fantasy book which is both enjoyable without being an absolute page turner forme.

Subjects

LGBTQ novels
LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy
Fiction, fantasy, epic
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Fiction, dystopian
Fiction, fantasy, general
New York Times reviewed
Hugo Award Winner
award:hugo_award=2016
award:hugo_award=novel
End of the world
Fiction
Kidnapping
Families
Mothers and daughters
Parental kidnapping
Earthquake zones
Fin du monde
Romans, nouvelles
Familles
Mères et filles
Enlèvement d'enfant par les parents
Zones sismiques
Fantasy
FICTION
General
Fantastischer Roman
Amerikanisches Englisch