The Fifth Season Audiobook

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• “Intricate and extraordinary.”

  — New York Times

• “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)

• “An ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn’t become apparent till toward the end of the novel.”

  — Guardian (London)

• “The Fifth Season is a powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and heartbreak…It is a novel that demands much of its readers; it rewards them aplenty and is one of those novels that becomes more powerful after deep consideration and subsequent readings.”

  — SFF World

• “Angrily, beautifully apocalyptic.”

  — Barnes&Noble.com

• “Astounding…[with] 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.org

• “Jemisin might just be the best worldbuilder out there right now, and the beginning of her new series features a setting just as vivid and unique as her other work, but wholly new and distinct.”

  — RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, Top Pick!)

• “Brilliant…gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists.”

  — Washington Post

• Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.

  — Entertainment Weekly

• Intricate and extraordinary.

  — The New York Times

• [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 of the novel. ... Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy.

  — Guardian

• 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

• 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)

• A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground.

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• This is an intense, exciting novel, where survival is always on the line, set in a fascinating, original and dangerous world with an intriguing mystery at the heart of it. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!

  — Martha Wells

• Brilliant...gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists.

  — Washington Post

• [A]ngrily, beautifully apocalyptic.

  — B&N.com

• Heartbreaking, wholly unexpected, and technically virtuosic, The Fifth Season is a tour-de-force. I felt every shock--and the book is packed with them--in my marrow. It's no exaggeration to say that Jemisin expands the range of what great fantasy can be.

  — Brian Staveley, author of The Emperor's Blades

• With every new work, Jemisin's ability to build worlds and break hearts only grows.

  — Kirkus (starred review)

• Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right now.... [She] is a master at what she does.

  — RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!)

• "The Fifth Season is a powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and heartbreak.... It is a novel that demands much of its readers; it rewards them aplenty and is one of those novels that becomes more powerful after deep consideration and subsequent readings.

  — SFF World