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Hello and welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post! Last week, I wrote about the first book in this amazing trilogy: The Broken Earth. The series is by N K Jemisin and the first book is called The Fifth Season. Well, I was so taken with this book that I simply had to move straight on to the next one…

The second book is called The Obelisk Gate. Here is the blurb:

“THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS… FOR THE LAST TIME.

The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring — madman, world-crusher, savior — has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.

It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.

The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.”

I am finding this series so absorbing that I find the books difficult to put down! They are definitely not easy or simple reads, indeed the plot and the concepts involved are very complicated and inventive. I do find them incredible, though!

Anyway, this was my short review on Goodreads:

As you can see above, I have now moved to the final book in the series and I hope that I am able to write about it in next week’s post. This is very unusual for me as I tend to like to break my reading up a bit. These three books demand a level of concentration from me that is quite difficult for me these days. I am finding that I have to read this series in shorter chunks. That’s why I am only managing one book per week at the moment. These books need to be savoured and fully understood, in my very humble opinion! Of course, now that I have found this author, I am going to have to explore her work in more detail…

Happy Reading to you all!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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Welcome to this week’s Reading Roundup post. I have read only one book this week, but what a book! I found it amazing!

My chosen book this week was N K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #01). It was one of those random serendipitous picks that, for once, turned out to be a brilliant find. Well done Amazon targeted adverts! Anyway, here is the blurb:

“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 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.”

Let me just say to anyone considering this book, it is a very dark fantasy/science fiction crossover. There are most probably better ways of categorising it, but be aware that the story is not uplifting and cheerful. Brilliant for me as it cheered me up immensely! My life may be hard in many ways, but it is not that hard!

This is my review on Goodreads. I awarded the book the full five stars…

Yes, I am now going to read the second book in the series: The Obelisk Gate! I hope I can finish it in time for next week’s post.

Happy Reading to you all.

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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