The Obelisk Gate The Obelisk Gate

Publisher Description

Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR)

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.

N. K. Jemisin's award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2016
August 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
448
Pages
PUBLISHER
Orbit
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
5
MB

Customer Reviews

Yvette Br. ,

Love this series

I love the world and character development of this series. Essuns chapters were engaging and I loved learning about her new comm and discovering the magic within the earth. I also enjoyed Nassuns development even though it was so frustrating how she blamed every bad thing on her mother. I’m excited and nervous to read the final book as I know Essun and Nassun are going to be in conflict.

Kbthemayor ,

I am me, and you

(To me) this story eloquently traverses growth through the lens of learning or the learner. However, learning—or the learner—was not linear; nor was growth. Book two was about agency and ownership while overlapping with—or possibly adjacent to—trauma and dialogue. I really appreciated this book. Off to book three.

Favorite quote: “Denying what you are didn’t keep people from knowing what you are.”

STEMteacher2020 ,

Master Wordsmith

So delicious to fall into this story. Interesting characters. Fascinating author-methods. I need to learn to pace myself, staying up too late to devour the next page, and the next, and the next.

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