The Fifth Season
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4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The first installment in N. K. Jemisin's chilling Broken Earth trilogy is a richly detailed sci-fi fantasy set on a planet scarred by earthquakes and volcanic eruption. The Fifth Season’s story of impending apocalypse follows the lives of three female orogenes, beings who can shatter mountains or quell quakes with a single thought. Jemisin tells their stories non-chronologically and from shifting perspectives, creating a captivating allegory that explores religion, race, gender, and social class. Those big ideas—and her incredible storytelling—are why she’s the first author ever to win the prestigious Hugo Award three years in a row.
Customer Reviews
Great read, great beginning!
Loved the entire book. Really get into worlds made up in their entirety by the author. So much description, so much love, so much hate, so much adventure!
I will be reading the rest of this series when the rest of her books come out. For the record, I finished this book in one sitting. For me, it was that good. It was the perfect read when the power went out during a tropical storm that hit big island Hawaii.
Definitely getting the rest of the series, definitely !
Distracting Style
Could not get interested due to the weird present tense writing style.
“But she is—was—special” - Hoa
What a great origin story to start a series! The perspective used to share this story was beyond still. This story effortlessly moved through time and space, through class and status, through rules and order. Through…you. You…now. You during change and because of change. I left this read thinking, what I am willing to give up to get. And, who. On to book #2.