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Quality
I started this full of excitement and stopped within the first hour because i really couldnt 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 heres where things really resonated and it took time for me to see the social constru... Read More
Competitiveness
Ive enjoyed most of my other 4star 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 wellknown tale of the run up to the end of the world but with a unique science fiction spin
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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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