This was one damn impressive book. It followed three outlooks, all of which were compelling to me, and a fantasy world that feels heavy and deep throughout without making me feel buried in random exposition. The world is based strongly in what I guess would be called geology. The magic makers here are orogenes who can manipulate energy within the earth--especially important in a world where "shakes" or earthquakes create seasons at irregular intervals. A season being a period where the world becomes less livable.

It ends on a killer last line that's a massive cliffhanger, of course, because everything is a trilogy now! But I've no doubt NK Jemisin will be able to sustain more story in this world.

Oh, and one note here just for anyone looking, I haven't been mentioning this in a lot of books I've been reading, but this world is explicitly diverse including people of many races (and while they might be fantasy races they're still brown), sexualities and gender. Many YA authors are really making an effort to show all this as a normal, unremarkable part of the world and I can't help but think this bodes really well for the future!