A review by sueread2030
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

That Ending Destroyed All the Build up of this Trilogy
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To tell you that book 1, the Fifth Season, is my ultimate favorite cultural fantasy and my obsession is an understatement
I have never read anything like it, and probably won't
The writing style is superb
but that is not what drew me in
it's how the story takes you in reverse

usually, dystopian books start with the catastrophe and then show you how the people are coping.
The Broken Earth started with people already coped and worked itself back to the cause.

The third book started strong, giving backstory reasons and "happened long ago" retelling. 
You can sense that everyone is angry and everyone is  wrong and everyone did something terrible

So you are preparing yourself for this Grand Finale, especially when Essun meets her daughter Nessun, whom she has been looking for for two years!!!

So what was that ending????????
and Hoa! I was intrigued by him throughout the series especially since I discovered that he is Essun's narrator. He is always there to guide and protect her, but
suddenly lets her die that easily??


Somehow, I felt that this should have had a fourth book. So many things were added in this book that created more questions

What I gathered mostly is "Anger". Everyone is Angry
The author is angry at the world so she wrote that ending
Father Earth was angry at the loss of the moon 
Essun was angry because...well, she was always angry
and Nessun??? I was angry at a 12 year old!!! how did this book manage that????

just disappointed. 





I postponed reading this for so long because I did not want to be finished with this masterpiece series
But It is Time
Doing it as audio this time

Ah! The End is the Beginning and the Beginni g is the End