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Not your typical Mother-Daughter story.

The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin

July 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – Award Winner (2017 Hugo Award)   This is the second book in the Broken Earth Triology, and picks up immediately after book one. Basically this entire review will be a spoiler, if you haven’t read the first book… sooo… stop here if you haven’t read them, but want to?). As the disaster that is this Season intensifies, Essun and Hoa (who she has learned is a stone-eater, and not a child at all) have found refuge in a community that is surviving […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, cbr11bingo, nkjemisin, theobeliskgate

kella's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, cbr11bingo, nkjemisin, theobeliskgate ·
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February 12, 2018 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

Reading this book was a bit of a chore. Not because N.K. Jemison’s work isn’t amazing, but because I checked it out as an ebook from my library, not realizing that I couldn’t renew it if other people had it on hold and it would be automatically returned before I could finish it. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did its predecessor, The Fifth Season, but it is still an intense read that gives us a deeper understanding of Essun, the main […]

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Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #CBR10, #NKJemison

Bea Pants's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #CBR10, #NKJemison ·
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