#the stone sky

[cow-friends]

They're afraid because we exist. There's nothing we did to provoke their fear other than exist. There's nothing we can do to earn their approval except stop existing, so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives.

A reminder for when assimilation tempts, by NK Jemisim in The Stone Sky.

#the stone sky #the fifth season #nk jemisin #assimilation #not tlt

[nct616]

hoahoahoahoahoahoahoahoa

#nk jemisin #nkjemisin #the broken earth #hoa #broken earth trilogy #fanart #nk jemisin fanart #I keep forgetting to post shit on here sorry to all ≈4.3 of you who may care #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #the stone sky

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #The Stone Sky #The Broken Earth #N.K. Jemisin #poll #result: no

[fantasiadelux]

#the fifth season #nk jemisin #science fiction #fantasy #scifi #broken earth trilogy #hugo awards #syenite #innon #the broken earth #the stone sky #the obelisk gate #damaya #essun #nassun #fanfic illustration #luxmeteora #luxnieve

[triflingshadows]

people are still reblogging my essun art from almost 2 years ago, so. redraw

#art #broken earth trilogy #nk jemisin #essun #the stone sky #broken earth #fanart

[bibliophilecats]

16 May 2023: Anti oppression

#book photo challenge #justonemorepage #nk jemisin #the stone sky #the broken eath trilogy #thai cat #bo

[lottieurl]

The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

#the stone sky #broken earth trilogy #thimking. #words

[feywildfancypants]

“Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”

The Stone Sky. NKJemisin

#nk jemisin #broken earth #the stone sky #book dragon #hoarding quotes

[dcober]

When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don't lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.

N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

#nk jemisin #the stone sky #the fifth season #fantasy #literature #Books #Quotes #american literature

[xuanelle]

every single one of alabaster's journal entries make me cry but this one especially

#i love him i love him so much #i think abt him and syenite and i break down crying #bracken.txt #alabaster #broken earth trilogy #the broken earth #the stone sky

[lifblogs]

For anyone who loves geology and volcanology and also fantasy I would totally recommend reading The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. Basically the world no longer has a moon, which in turn shattered the world and now it's very unstable. There are what they call Fifth Seasons which are basically volcanic winters. There are a lot of earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. And it's theorized by one character that the characters called orogenes (the characters with powers) actually exist as a form of evolution to try and keep the human race alive because their powers deal with the earth. One character is so powerful that he ripped the continent in half! This of course is causing a volcanic winter that would most likely destroy all life on the planet and it would last for possibly millions of years.

#the broken earth #the broken earth trilogy #n.k. jemisin #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #the stone sky

[nct616]

@nkjemisin’s hoa

#broken earth #hoa #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #the stone sky #nkjemisin #read this series for the first time last spring and was absolutely floored #relistening/rereading as we speak

[genspiel]

was googling some broken earth stuff and somebody described what happens to certain characters throughout the series as "getting stoned" and i'm not okay dshjksdjdhf

#tre reads #broken earth #nk jemisin #essun #alabaster tenring #the way this makes it sound out of context LMAO #god can you even imagine alabaster on drugs. the world would not survive #((not that it's surviving him WITHOUT drugs either; but you know what i mean-)) #...incidentally though i was actually looking for information about maxixe #i feel like almost nobody ever talks about him :( #i know he's a pretty minor character but still #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #the stone sky

[wutheringmights]

I finished The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin last night, then spent all of today digesting it. I really needed time to figure out how I feel about this book, nonetheless the Broken Earth trilogy.

As a whole, I like this series. My biggest praise will always go to the relationship between Essun and Nassun. That Essun, a woman defined by her motherhood, was a terrible mother to her daughter, and that her daughter in turn found solace in her mother's old abuser, is fascinating. It's insane. I would read a hundred books about them.

But even though the series is about Essun and Nassun, it's so just... not. I've complained before that the intricate world building is as fascinating as it is distracting. The narrative is always scrambling to explain something new, so much so that the characters aren't allowed to interact as much as they should.

I'm not even just talking about Essun and Nassun. Tonkee was wasted. She was first introduced in the very first book, and she was very cool and interesting. I kept waiting for the reason why Tonkee is in this story beyond a few lines of needed exposition. But after the first book, she stops being important.

Outside of characters like Schaffa, Hoa, and Alabaster, I didn't really care or know any of the other characters in the large cast. In theory, I'm supposed to have feelings about Lerna and Ykka, but... no. They served a function. And that's it.

The plot of this series just baffles me. Why did we spend so much time with Castrima? Why did Nassun have to keep finding excuses to not go after Essun? Why was this three books? This could have been duology! If I really wanted to, I could put on a tin foil hat and claim that someone outside Jemisin forced her to turn a two-book plot into a trilogy. I'm just utterly baffled that someone would let this story meander like this.

All my griping aside, I don't hate this series. I like it a lot, but on a intellectual scale.

This book is filled with fascinating observations about our society. I bet someone who knows more about the neo slave narratives of the 20th century would be able to write a killer paper on how this series ruminates on the legacy of authors like Butler and Morrison.

I like all of the complicated characters, how they defy dichotomies like good vs evil. Nassun is one hell of a character. I want to study her. I want more of her.

I don't want to pit two bad bitches against each other, but I can't help but compare this series to R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War trilogy. They have little in common, but they are both dark fantasy series I read this year, so bear with me.

The more distance I put between myself and Kuang, the more I struggle with how simplistic her stories can be at times. She doesn't leave a lot of room for interpretation or for the reader to introduce their own feelings to the mix. If you scrape off the overt violence, it surprisingly simple. It's a series that doesn't require a whole lot of input from the reader. But, the plot has fantastic momentum. Each book by itself is a joy to read.

Jemisin embraces uncertainty far more. There are no clear answers. The reader meets these characters and are forced to come to their own conclusions about them. Everything from its world to its themes gets more complex the more thought you put into them. The book demands you think about it. But, each book is kind of a slog. I always had to force myself to pick it up and read the next part. I never regretted doing so, but I also never really fell in love with the series the way I wanted to.

This is a case where I can say that a series is objectively excellent, but not really for me. I'm glad I read them all and I'm going to continue diving deeper into Jemisin's books. But I am so very glad to get the Broken Earth trilogy off my plate.

I also want to talk about the acknowledgements at the end of the book. In it, Jemisin explains that she wrote the trilogy while caring for her sick mother, who died before the last book was finished. I wish I got this context sooner. As Jemisin says, the trilogy is inadvertently an exploration of motherhood and her grappling with her mother's death.

There were a few scenes in this book in particular where I felt her experiences and thoughts echoed my own. I'm not a Hugo Award winning author, but I did notice that after my mother died a few years ago, everything I wrote was about her, even when it wasn't.

"Even that part where--?" Yes, even that. Even now I'm still writing about her and my relationship with her, and in many ways that are and aren't painfully obvious.

It was just an interesting thing to read when her death anniversary just past.

(Do me a favor and don't give me any more condolences. I really don't need them, and I would like to not regret adding that little tidbit about myself to this reflection.)

#me rambling #me reading #the stone sky #the broken earth trilogu #the broken earth #nk jemisin #books #bookblr

[birgittesilverbae]

N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

#the stone sky #beacore #nk jemisin

[child-of-hurin]

Anyone here has read Jemisin's The Stone Sky? I'd like to ask a specific spoiler question about the ending, to figure out if I should keep reading or postpone it a little

#the stone sky #I'm just not in the mindplace to read about certain things that I suspect might come up & I'd like to know