This book features Essun, the hero of book one, The Fifth Season, settling into her new community of Castrima.
Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, is no exception to this rule (for a detailed look at book one, click here). It is the characters dealing with the events of book one and preparing for the action of book three. Stuck in between these walloping crescendo moments, book two usually falls much flatter. It is almost inevitably a bridge between what was surely a cliffhanger-heavy but ultimately satisfying climax to book one-because no publisher is going to print a 500-page first-book-of-a-trilogy that does not have some decisive storytelling-and the ultimate finale to the trilogy, which is also surely momentous. Readers of the fantasy genre often dread the second book of a trilogy.
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