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Month: July 2022

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin

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I bought these books from Amazon and read them on my Kindle Paperwhite. Written by N. K. Jemisin the Broken Earth Trilogy includes the books The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky.

What caught my attention about these books and the author is that all 3 books won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Think about that for a second, all 3 books in the trilogy won Best Novel Hugo awards, 2016, 2017, and 2018. They also won a lot of other awards, but for one author to win 3 years in a row is amazing.

I read the first 2 books in about 6 days; I made all kinds of excuses not to do other things so that I could spend more time reading. They went very fast, and I loved every word. The third book, The Stone Sky, took a lot longer, maybe 10 days to read it. I didn’t want the story to end… and the last book is emotionally a lot heavier than the first 2.

I have also bought the books on Audible and look forward to listening to them in a couple of months, I plan on taking a long break from the story in the hopes that when I do listen to them, I discover some new bits I missed in the initial reading.

From the publisher:

This is the way the world ends. Again.

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s bedrock for a thousand years — collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman’s vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She’ll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

If you like science fiction or fantasy stories I highly recommend The Broken Earth trilogy and rate them a 10 out of 10.

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