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“Jemisin continues to break the heart with her sensitive, clear-eyed depictions of a beyond-dysfunctional family and the extraordinarily destructive force that is prejudice. She wrestles with moral issues at an extreme level…[and] refuses to provide easy answers: they’re simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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The Stone Sky ... establishes [Jemisin] as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation... It's that good. She's that good.
— John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal
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Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.
— Entertainment Weekly
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[N. K. Jemisin] has pretty well conquered [the epic fantasy scene] with the Broken Earth.
— The New York Times
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Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful.
— Kirkus (starred review)
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Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy is geologic. These books are a revolution in which I want to take part.
— NPR Books
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Incredible, wildly original . . . [The Stone Sky is] blowing me away.
— The Verge
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A real tour de force . . . one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory.
— RT Book Reviews (five stars)
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The powerful conclusion to the "Broken Earth" trilogy will please the author's many fans with its fully developed world, detailed settings, and complex characters.
— Library Journal
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[N. K. Jemisin's] books have abstracted real-life race issues in a way that serves to magnify the truth.
— Washington Post
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Intricate and extraordinary.
— New York Times on The Fifth Season
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[A]n ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till toward the end... Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy.
— Guardian on The Fifth Season
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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 on The Fifth Season
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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) on The Fifth Season
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A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground.
— Library Journal (Starred review) on The Fifth Season
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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!) on The Fifth Season
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Stunning and well constructed ... a book that imbues itself with deeper meaning the more it unfolds and reveals itself, and by the end, I saw everything in a new light. I knew Jemisin was talented, being a huge fan of her Inheritance and Dreamblood books, but here she employs heretofore unseen skills.
— Lightspeed on The Fifth Season
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Brilliant...gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists.
— Washington Post
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One of the most celebrated new voices in epic fantasy.
— Salon.com