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The Stone Sky The Broken Earth Book 3 WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD 2018 Broken Earth Trilogy N K Jemisin author 9780356508689 Books

There is a lot of crap science fiction. Sorry, but it's true. This is not that. This series, and book, is the opposite of that.

The prose finds a nice balance between "the verdant emerald wands of..." and "the green grass.
The plot moves along nicely. Very little feels wedged in and extraneous.
The narrator's voice moves between first person personal and omniscient comfortably and smoothly. Very rarely are you jarred because of point-of-view.
Characters are deep, interact naturally and are interesting. Conflicts, such as a long-simmering mother-daughter complicated relationship, are addressed head-on and honestly.
The book (or more accurately, series) gives you a lot to chew on with regard to a lot of topics, by telling a great story (not by saying "You Should Feel Bad About...")

Oh - for extra special bonus points, she didn't mess up The Ending!

Far and away some of the best SF I've read in quite a while.


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The Stone Sky The Broken Earth Book 3 WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD 2018 Broken Earth Trilogy N K Jemisin author 9780356508689 Books Reviews

Nora Jemisin puts an end to her award-winning trilogy without much fanfare, yet still to the reader's enormous satisfaction. The Stone Sky delivers exactly what it is supposed to, but in a denser and much more straightforward style than the first two books. Some reviewers have criticised this and therefore the book as ‘rushed’ as ‘anticlimatic’, but I couldn‘t agree less. After The Obelisk Gate, a true triumph of hint and understatement, where I had to re-read entire sections and there were still times where I wasn't exactly sure what was going on, ‘straightforward’ was more than welcome. ‘Straightforward’ was simply great.

The Stone Sky thus delivers no surprises and ties all loose ends, giving explanation to all lingering questions. No, this is not our Earth, not even millennia ahead in the future. Yes, all hints in the previous two novels turn out to be quite literal—from the loss of the Moon through the origin of the stone eaters and all the way to the existence of ‘Father Earth’. The rage from the first book is back—tripled this time. Jemisin repeats, perhaps ten different times, in the words of ten different characters from different eras that “when the world is too broken to fix, you need to destroy it and start building it up again, brick by brick”, making this into a sort a motto for the entire trilogy. I couldn’t agree less with her.

Nothing could match the structural originality—or the ‘wow’ effect it generates—of The Fifth Season. For me it will always remain the best of the three novels and one of the best sci fi/fantasty books I have ever read in my entire life. Yet The Stone Sky is tremendous both in its own right, as a separate book, and as a way to cap the series. Extraordinarily ambitious writing, unrivalled structural originality, breathtaking world-building and unbelievably enticing plot, this is all The Broken Earth has to offer—and then some.
While I overall enjoyed the trilogy, the 1st book was definitely the best. I feel the 2nd introduced extra elements that only muddied the waters, and having read the 3rd, I think they were either unneccessary, or underdeveloped. In particular the motivations of the various factions (orogenes, Guardian factions, stone eater factions, the Earth) didn't always make sense.
Also this book suffers from a problem common to Fantasy books that keeps me from reading more of the genre. Agatha Christie described it very well in the contest of murder "whodduneit" books when she said the readers must always feel like they are playing with a full deck of cards. That is, the author should never solve the mystery by introducing a new character or a motivation never before mentioned in the book, what she called an ace up the author's sleeve. Fantasy feels exactly like that. Magic can always show up to save the day, right? The real problem starts when the author tries to give it some logical framework only to break her own framework to get herself out of a tight spot. So when orogeny isn't enough anymore we can always whip up something else (the silver, or magic). When orogeny becomes too deus ex machina, we can make up a new thing that turns you into stone if you use it. It makes no sense, other than as a literary device. It would have been better if the author hadn't tried to explain it to us, so we wouldn't have to ask the hard questions.
Don't get me wrong, I did not hate this book, far from it. I looked forward to having some free time to sit down and read more. I am being picky because I care about this trilogy and I would have liked to see it be even better.
There is a lot of crap science fiction. Sorry, but it's true. This is not that. This series, and book, is the opposite of that.

The prose finds a nice balance between "the verdant emerald wands of..." and "the green grass.
The plot moves along nicely. Very little feels wedged in and extraneous.
The narrator's voice moves between first person personal and omniscient comfortably and smoothly. Very rarely are you jarred because of point-of-view.
Characters are deep, interact naturally and are interesting. Conflicts, such as a long-simmering mother-daughter complicated relationship, are addressed head-on and honestly.
The book (or more accurately, series) gives you a lot to chew on with regard to a lot of topics, by telling a great story (not by saying "You Should Feel Bad About...")

Oh - for extra special bonus points, she didn't mess up The Ending!

Far and away some of the best SF I've read in quite a while.