The novel is not exactly beautiful, more like brutal and painful, like their world itself but I will also say that never once, was it ever boring. She comes home to find her son beaten to death by her husband and her daughter missing along with the husband. The main character, who we first know only as Essun is an Orogene. The Orogenes, people who can control how the plates of the earth shift, creating or stopping earthquakes, are despised and feared. They have, from the beginning of their lives, been brutalized emotionally, manipulated and controlled. 2 3 Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. They’re also somewhat distant though I do sympathise with them. Nora Keita Jemisin 1 (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. I won’t say that I really like her characters (sometimes I do), they’re sort of hard to connect with. In the beginning you think that these three are different people, but later realise that they are, all three of them, the same person at different ages. The book simultaneously traverses across three timelines.

I’m not a fan of tragedies, and this book is a great big mass of tragedy, so much so that I wonder if there will ever be a happily ever after, but oh well, it’s still interesting. I don’t know why I decided to read her newest book, The Fifth Season, though I’m glad I did. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms for quite some time except I just couldn’t bring myself to read it. When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine.

The fifth season trilogy