The Obelisk Gate

, #2

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Audiobook

English language

Published Aug. 16, 2015 by Hachette Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-4789-6439-1
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B01K5RQ6J6
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This is the way the world ends, for the last time.

The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.

Essun - once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger - has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.

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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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