Readers hungry for the next installment will also find ample satisfaction in rereading this one. The Fifth Season establishes the setting, a harsh futuristic Earth and a continent called the Stillness, which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants. Jemisin’s graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters fighting to save a doomed world. Essun sets off to find the girl, undertaking a journey that will force her to face unfinished business from her own secret past. Soon after Essun’s secret is revealed, her husband kills their son, and her daughter goes missing. Those who escape servitude and seek safety in the comms face expulsion and execution at the hands of the fearful. Authorities keep a brutal hold on orogenes, controlling everything about their lives, including whom they breed with. They can quell or start earthquakes, open veins of magma, and generally cause or rein in geological chaos. Essun lived quietly in a comm with her husband and children until her secret got out: she-and her children-are orogenes, those who have the ability to control Earth forces. The Stillness is a quiet and bitter land, sparsely populated by subsistence communities called comms. Humans struggle to survive on a ruined world in this elegiac, complex, and intriguing story, the first in the Broken Earth series from acclaimed author Jemisin (the Inheritance Trilogy).
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