This book was recommended to me on Twitter. I’d replied to a thread about SciFi and said I thought I didn’t like the genre until I read some SciFi by women, and cited Margaret Atwood, Ursula K LeGuin and Octavia Butler as writers whose work I’d really enjoyed. One person suggested I try this trilogy...
"The Fifth Season" is a remarkable book on the evil of slavery the ruthlessness of empires, the hunger for freedom and the persistence of hope. "The Fifth Season" deserves all the praise it has received. It uses non-linear but easy to follow storytelling to explore heartbreak...
It took about 50 pages for the author's voice to grow on me. Once the story got rolling and I understood the vocabulary more clearly it was a captivating read.We get a very nice range and scope of perspectives: a gay, disenchanted master orogene and the student assigned to make a baby with him; a se...
Author: N. K. Jemisin Narrator: Robin Miles Time: 15:27 | Pages: 500 Um...wow! I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one. This novel was so beautifully complex without becoming convoluted. I'm still trying to make sense of the fact that the three women we follow in this story is all the...
"Back to the personal. Need to keep things grounded, ha ha"in "The Fifth Season" by J. K. JemisinSurely most decent SF is unique, each story is different from other stories, each writer is different from each other writer? Most of the speculative/dystopian/ science fiction I've read has been written...
I don't think I can fully review this book without spoiling it, and that is just something I do not want to do. I went into this book knowing nothing about it other than it won the Hugo, was nominated for numerous other awards (Nebula, Locus, Kitschies, Goodreads), and would probably be well written...
I seriously begin to wonder what kind of problem I have with hyped books. Because this is another one of these books that almost everybody loves and I just didn´t feel the love for it at all. One problem may be that I´m not the biggest fantasy fan, but there are some fantasy books out there that I d...
Spoilers for The Fifth Season below! I wanted to take a look at two books which fall on the literary end of speculative fiction, but which are also very aware of the genre’s conventions and influences. Which is to say, that they are both complex and sophisticated, while remaining very much a part of...
Do you ever read a book because it was nominated/won ALL THE AWARDS and you're like "yeah, but is it as good?" And then you read the book and immediately reward it all the personal awards you can think of? Here's a list of a couple of mine:- Amazing Characterization Award- Heartbreaking Prose Writin...
I really enjoyed the book, though I felt it dragged a bit at first. It definitely had lows afterwards as well, but overall it was full of interesting characters and fascinating worldbuilding, so I found it quite difficult to put this one down. The prose is also beautiful as always, and I loved the L...
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