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The Broken Earth, Book 2

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The Obelisk Gate

Auteur(s): N. K. Jemisin
Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
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 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. Dystopique Fantastique Fantastique épique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Science-fiction Épique

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"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."—Entertainment Weekly
"Beyond the meticulous pacing, the thorough character work, and the staggering ambition and revelations of the narration, Jemisin is telling a story of our present, our failures, our actions in the face of repeated trauma, our responses to the heat and pressure of our times. Her accomplishment in this series is tremendous. It pole-vaults over the expectations I had for what epic fantasy should be and stands in magnificent testimony to what it could be."—NPR on The Obelisk Gate
"Jemisin builds off of the strong foundation laid in The Fifth Season ... an interesting new series."
—Booklist on The Obelisk Gate
"Exceptional."—Library Journal (starred review) on The Obelisk Gate
"Stunning, again."—Kirkus (starred review) on The Obelisk Gate
"[How] can something as large and complex as this story exist in her head, and how does she manage to tell it to me so beautifully? I can't stand how much I love The Broken Earth trilogy so far.... Absolutely dazzling."—B&N Reviews on The Obelisk Gate
"Stunning.... Jemisin's most accomplished series yet."—RT Book Reviews on The Obelisk Gate
"Jemisin is a tremendously talented writer on every level and she's at the top of her game here. I love books that beat me up and take my lunch money, and this one left me bruised, breathless, and desperate for the final volume."—Rose Fox, senior reviews editor Publishers Weekly, (PW Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2016) on The Obelisk Gate
"Brilliant characters, vivid world, and pacing . . . .The Obelisk Gate is an incredibly ambitious and important novel."—The Verge on The Obelisk Gate
"Intricate and extraordinary."—New York Times on The Fifth Season
"[The Fifth Season is] an ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till toward the end ... Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy."—Guardian on The Fifth Season
"Astounding... Jemisin maintains a gripping voice and an emotional core that not only carries the story through its complicated setting, but sets things up for even more staggering revelations to come."—NPR Books on The Fifth Season
"Jemisin's graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters fighting to save a doomed world."—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on The Fifth Season
"A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground."—Library Journal (starred review) on The Fifth Season
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This book brings the Stillness into greater detail. Jemisin has envisioned a startlingly realistic fantasy setting: A dynamic, dying planet, social castes, different species, powerful mutations, and believable "human" prejudices. She writes very well, fleshing out her concepts.
This second in the Broken Earth Trilogy follows two plotlines, not deigning to bring them together except very superficially. It's a good set-up for the third novel, but not really able to stand on it's own. The action is too spaced - diluted throughout the novel - a shame given Jemisin's talent for writing with pulse-pounding pace when she wants to.
Unfortunately, this novel also starts to suffer from "Battlestar Galactica Syndrome". It gets bogged down in clever metaphysics. Additionally, I don't understand her fascination with gay sex, or her insistence on using the Second Person perspective. Telling her reader "You feel angry" or "You think about..." is presumptuous. Just tell us the story...we'll figure out what we feel.

Robin Myles is again an above average reader. She fleshes out some unique dialects - combinations of East Indian, Scottish, and Irish accents. - depending on the character's birthplace in the Stillness. Brilliant. She unfortunately has a tendency to lecture rather than relate the story.

I give this installment 7 out of 10 stars.

Weakest of the Trilogy

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The story was beauitfully crafted to give a vivid image of what was happening. Overall a solid book with a plot that could go anywhere. There was once or twice that I went back and listened to a part again to make sure I understood, but otherwise it was clear throughout.

World building at it's creative best

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Take awhile to get into the action, but I loved this book. The reader is also very good at changing voices.

Can’t wait to read book 3

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Original and imaginative. Great narrator to boot!

I haven't read (listened to) anything quite like it before. Highly recommend to sci fi or fantasy readers.

Loved it!

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Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award and second in the trilogy. I didn't think this book was quite as interesting as the first, but then, it's hard for a second book to live up to the first since it doesn't have that "everything's new" element of surprise. Still, there were a few new things introduced or elaborated on; we learned more about the Guardians, and a lot more about the other intelligent species present on this world beside humans, the Stone Eaters.

Like the first book, this one alternates between viewpoints of different characters. This time our three main storytellers are Essun, from the first book; Nassun, her daughter; and one of the Stone Eaters (though only a small amount from him). The book is basically a search journey, following Essun until she settles in Castrima; and Nassun, following her separate journey and eventual settling into a new home also. There is a lot more detail about the world, its history and legends, its magic systems, and how life on it is affected by the Seasons of hostile climate. We also learn what it is that "angered Father earth" and caused the seasons of cataclysms to start in the first place. I'm a little less enamoured of the ancient-races-built-technological-marvels thing with the obelisks since the seem a little deus-ex-machina to me, but I'm willing to see where this goes in the third and final book of the trilogy before passing judgement.

Again I found the characters and world very interesting and detailed, but found the actual writing a little hard to get into, and I still can't put my finger on why. This isn't a book to be read quickly or with impatience, but it probably is a book I could reread multiple times and continue to get new things out of it each time. I am looking forward to picking up the concluding book and seeing how it all finally ties together and concludes.

Not quite as good as the first in series, IMO

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