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 Fantasy novels often provide a degree of escapism: a good thing, for any reader who has something ... Read moreworth escaping. Too often, though, that escape comes through a fictional world that erases rather than solves the more complex problems of our own... In Jemisin's work, nature is not unchangeable or inevitable. The Fifth Season invites us to imagine a dismantling of the earth in both the literal and the metaphorical sense, and suggests the possibility of a richer and more fundamental escape
The New York Times
Jemisin brilliantly illustrates the belief that, yes, imaginative world-building is a vital element of fantasy - but also that every character is a world unto herself
NPR
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