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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1)

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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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orbit; Reprint edition (August 4, 2015)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316229296


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 96


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.6 x 8.2 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #7,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #141 in Dystopian Fiction (Books) #768 in Epic Fantasy (Books) #813 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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    • In retrospect, the best beginning to a book series I've ever read.
I have edited this review after finishing the series. I started off wondering if I would finish this book; there were some things I initially perceived as flaws, but turned out to be strokes of pure genius. I'll explain later. I liked Jemison's previous work in The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and the subsequent novels in that series. The Dreamblood books were more of a miss for me my first read through, but after having gone back through them again, I appreciate them more and they were wonderful stories as well. Going into this book, I had mixed expectations. As it turns out, the book, despite my initial misgivings, is excellent. The story is wonderfully written and fleshed out, with a thought-provoking setting and interesting characters. The treatment of orogenes (i.e. magic users) is somewhat reminiscent of the Dragon Age video games, although it definitely has its own twists; the similarities are in how orogenes are controlled and feared by their society. I found myself eagerly anticipating my nightly reading times to sink into this world. I do have a minor quibble with some of the language the author developed for her world. Jemisin has developed a sort of jargon for her world that I found to be unrealistic. It's hard to describe exactly why it didn't work for me; it just felt cheesy in that way that sci-fi lingo can become cheesy. For example, northern latititudes and southern latititudes are referred to as nomidlats and somidlats or something like that. The word 'rust' is often a swear word, which just sounded lame when reading through it: "rusting hell!" See what I mean? Communities are called 'comms.' Every facet of the society depicted in The Fifth Season is centered around long term survival after periods of extreme environmental adversity, but I could never make sense of why they would have lost other vocabulary to describe settlements; why does it have to be "comms" to describe any hamlet, village, town? That simply didn't seem very realistic. The characters in the novel certainly use advanced vocabulary in all other respects. I got to where I could overlook this stuff, but initially it a little harder for me to suspend disbelief throughout the read. Another thing that bothered me was one character's points-of-view being written in the 2nd person. This character's chapters are the only ones that are like this, so it is jarring to read several chapters in the 3rd person to then suddenly be thrust into a chapter that literally sounds as if someone is telling what YOU are doing/seeing/thinking/saying etc. Initially, I thought it was simply incorrect to use the 2nd person. After having completed the series, it was genius and there is no other way this story could have been told as effectively. It will bother you. It will make you feel like the Author is trying too hard to make you feel her characters' feelings. In the end, you'll bask in sheer amazement about the courage it took to do it, and how fantastically well it works. It was the above two flaws that had me debating putting the book down and moving on to something else. I am happy I didn't, it's a pretty darn good book. There is another problem with the book that needs to be discussed. This is a world where forced breeding occurs between people in order to ensure the survival of the human species. I commend Jemisin for including homosexual and transsexual characters in this book. She treats them as any other sort of character. At first I didn't think anything of it, but there is a drawback to that approach. I understand that Jemisin wanted to write these characters in an inclusive way. I just think that the world they lived in would never have allowed it. In a society where producing offspring is critical for the survival of the species, I found it incongruous that homosexuality would be so liberally accepted; not because of my own views on the topic, which are quire liberal, but because of the context of the world I was reading about in this book. In this world, people who might not produce offspring might be viewed as with suspicion or as a threat. In our world, persecution of homosexuals has most often arisen in areas where resources are scarce and survival is difficult. I think both the impact and the immersion would have been helped if the society was hostile to them, and then their worth was shown over time by their absolute critical importance to the continued existence of the human species. The story, however, is so amazingly good that these minor gripes do not detract from its telling in any significant way. I loved this story, and the series itself is the best I've ever read. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2015 by Josh
    • Really good book, run don't walk to read this
There are moments when you pick up a book and you’re immediately captured, in awe with the world building, engrossed by the story and the characters and unable to imagine how you ever lived without ever getting to know the characters before you on the printed page. I call that moment ‘the click’, that magical moment when the story comes together and you are at the authors beck and call, devouring every word on the page like some thirsty traveler in the desert devouring water from a refreshing stream. Before penning this review, I wasn’t sure what to really say about N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, that has not already been said before. I mean Jemisin is already recognized as one of the rising stars in the Fantasy genre, infusing diversity and innovation in her work, turning the norms of the franchise on their head with every book. And this was before she won the Hugo. If only we all could be so lucky. That being said, I’ll try and I'll start by saying I thoroughly enjoyed The Fifth Season. I mean who wouldn’t like a novel who’s novel begins with the sentence, “Lets start with the end of the World”, a sentence that immediately had me hooked. End of the world, you can’t start with stakes higher than that for crying out loud. That being said, welcome to the Land known as the Stillness, a world that is anything but. You see this world is marked by seasons, cataclysmic geological events where the Earth in its anger tries to wipe out all human life on the planet for some unknown transgression. The magic of this world is also tied heavily to the Earth as well, orogeny it’s called, the ability of certain people orogenes to sense and manipulate tectonic activity, drawing their power from their environment to quiet quakes and manipulating other geological events such as closing volcanoes, clearing reefs etc. Naturally one would thing that such beings of power in a world of geological uncertainty would be worshiped our even revered but NK Jemisin flips this idea on its head and places orogenes in a position of discrimination and oppression. These individuals are feared for their abilities, labeled as a curse on the planet by Father Earth, slaughtered for their powers. Think more X-men rather than say Avengers, feared rather than loved for their powers. As such Orogenes are rounded up and taken to a school known as the Fulcrum where they can learn to use their abilities, ostensibly for their own protection but primarily so they can be controlled and used as weapons for the Totalitarian state that governs the majority of the Stillness. Orogenes are considered less than human feared and mistreated as such, while also policed by the mysterious Guardians who have the amazing ability to negate their powers. The beauty of this story lies not only in the characters N.K. Jemisin creates but the themes she intricately weaves throughout the story. True this is a story about life on a hellish world with seasonal apocalypses, but it is also a deeply personal story, a story about family, the nature of both love and identity in the shadow of racial and cultural oppression. The idea of history itself being used as a weapon against the oppressed, a tool to justify the rightness of those in power is explored in the novel, juxtaposed against the idea that the truth if only known would set the world free, if only it were known. There is a strong undercurrent in the novel that Orogeny and orogenes in particular, if they were just allowed to live their lives, love whom they will and take a more active and dynamic role in society that all of humanity would be better off and perhaps even find a way to thrive on this planet who’s desperately trying to kill everyone. It is instead racial discrimination, fear of the other and human nature that keeps this from happening. I ’m not sure a better allegory could be written for our deeply troubled times where isms of all kind divide us in the real world. Likewise, the story is told through three different narratives which is normal for a fantasy work, but all three narratives come together beautifully. I won’t ruin it for you, but when these narratives come together its magical. One of the narratives is also written in 2nd person POV which was a wonderful surprise and Jemisin pulls it off beautifully. For years to come, her use of 2nd person will be a wonderful example of how to work with this tough, seldom used perspective. That she pulled this off speaks volumes of Jemisin’s talent, pulling this experimental POV off, yet still telling her story, melding seemingly disparate perspectives from the narratives together without a hitch. Bravo. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the beauty of Jemisin’s prose and style, conversational, taut yet full of purpose with each word. Jemisin’s prose is loaded with meaning, showing rather than telling, the characters interacting and taking cues from each other in the way one would in everyday life. In other words, not everything is spelled out to the reader, you like the character have to read between the lines to catch everything that’s implied on the page. Some may find this annoying, but I found the lack of handholding in some parts to be the true mark of the mature author, trusting their audience while also adding to the wonder of the world she’s created. In short, I loved The Fifth Season. It’s a fantasy novel that destroys common fantasy tropes but still tells a story that is rich, deep and more importantly feels like it has something to say. The book won the Hugo, so I’m not sure what more needs to be said to convince you that this is one you need to read. Run don’t walk to this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016 by The book guy

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