The Obelisk Gate

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N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate (EBook, 2016, Orbit)

eBook, 448 pages

English language

Published Aug. 15, 2016 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-22928-9
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The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.

It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.

The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.

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reviewed The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)

Smaller in scope but rides the worldbuilding wave

I was mixed on The Fifth Season - confused by some of the narrative styles, but felt better after reading a few summaries. I didn't have that problem with The Obelisk Gate.

By focusing on only a couple characters, the story is more streamlined and easier to follow, but it feels like a lot of the worldbuilding and kineticism of the first book is lost. Which is a shame, because that was my favorite part of the first in the series.

It feels like Jemisin's ramping up for the final book in the trilogy, so I'm excited to see what follows.

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