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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

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savvyrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Rating: 3/5 stars

The conclusion to the BROKEN EARTH trilogy.

There was a lot to enjoy about this trilogy: the concept was fascinating, the writing was beautiful, and several of the characters were really complex and interesting. Unfortunately, I felt like this third book fell pretty flat, especially when compared with the rest of the series.

I don’t mind a slow burn, but this one took forever to get going, and even once it did I felt like so much was left unsaid or open-ended. I really didn’t like the ending and don’t feel like it was anywhere close to the payoff I was expecting after the first two books.

In short, I’d still recommend this trilogy and I’m glad I read it, but can’t help feeling a bit let down.

CW: Violence; gore; death; injury; pregnancy; slavery

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kalagrace's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

A very satisfying ending to the trilogy. Sad but hopeful.

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lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Sobbed my way through the last chapter.
This author is a genius. The world-building is wildly thorough. I know that I need to re-read this series so that I can understand it better because I do feel like some of it went over my head. She has such a powerful understanding of humanity and families that keeps wrecking my shit.
This last book was honestly hard to want to read--because I just didn't like reading Nassun's POV (it's still excellent! I just wanted to spend time with Essun, but I know how important Nassun's POV was there)--but every time I picked it up, I didn't want to put it down.

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slinkmalink's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Did such a good job of bringing everything together, rounding off the world-building by explaining why the world was what it was. I thought it was the perfect ending for Essun

to choose for Nassun to live whatever she decided and for Nassun to have the faith that she was trying to do the right thing, despite their relationship never being fixed

Such a great series about exploiting the earth and exploiting and oppressing eachother and how neither are sustainable and will just make everything worse

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jess_always_reading's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I absolutely loved the ending of this trilogy! Jemisin ties together so much complexity incredibly well and with so much thought. I will forever come back to revisit these oh-so-human characters.

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