There’s inevitably one story line that bores me, and Damaya’s was it. Multiple POV and multiple story lines are always kind of hit or miss for me. You have been warned.ĭiscussion: I had a hard time getting through the Fifth Season, which I didn’t expect. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS… FOR THE LAST TIME. I wanted to see if The Fifth Season would be the one to suck me in. Previously, I’ve read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and The Killing Moon, both books that I liked well enough, but neither of which made me push on to the later entries in their series. I very often love the individual scenes but have a harder time connecting with her books as a whole. Why I Chose It: As lead up to the Hugo Awards, and also because I have a strange relationship with Jemisin’s writing.
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