What does this mean?Highlights
Quality
I started this full of excitement and stopped within the first hour because i really couldn't cope with the narrator.
All three are orogenes, people with the ability to manipulate the earth and rock to create or stop earthquakes.
Packaging/appearance
Slavery, racism and slurs were on the menu (here's where things really resonated) and it took time for me to see the social con... Read More
Competitiveness
I've enjoyed most of my other 4-star books significantly more than this one.
Convincing broken characters on a broken world.
Its like a fantasy world but maybe not so far away.
Told from three perspectives, jemisin weaves a well-known tale of the run up to the end of the world but with a unique science ... Read More
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- This product had a total of 6,740 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 17 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The author must have been a fan of thomas covenant the people and general feel of the stillness resemble early inhabitants of the land far too much
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Some people will not get these books
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I will admit the writing style does take some getting used to some parts are narrated in second person but it didn’t have a negative effect on my reading experience
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book is set in a world where natural disasters have become the norm as earth is so unstable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
These people are known as “orogenes” and despite being of huge use to society the general population fear and oppress them due to the powers that they possess
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The relationships and interactions are meaningful nothing feels like filler or info dumping
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It took a couple of chapters to get into mostly because of a selfconscious omniscient narrator followed by a secondperson point of view both of which were difficult to engage with
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But the latter oversteps the mark toward the end and only works through the extensive and extreme withholding of information by the very character youre closest to
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