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4.4 AVERAGE
4.4 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Epic fantasy with really great worldbuilding. I didn't totally follow this series until the last 50-ish pages of the final book when things started to make sense, but I still loved it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was, by far, the most ambitious world-building fantasy that I've ever read. Sci-fi/fantasy isn't really my genre, but the Broken Earth trilogy was recommended to me by someone who said she'd never read anything like it. I totally agree. I'm not even sure I understood it all!
As much as I tried I couldn't make myself care about this book. None of the characters are likeable. I don't wish to follow any of them around. And even though this book does a lot to reveal the back story of the world, I also couldn't care less why the earth and the moon and all these things happened. In the end I made it less than half of the way through before just giving up and reading a summary. The summary revealed that I was right, and nothing happened that makes me want to continue on. Sorry, but this series was just not for me.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
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
adventurous
dark
tense
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
FINALLY finished this. To the very end, Jemisin captures falling, stumbling into place without it being a gotcha. Fixing the damaged, accepting the irreprable. Castrima on the move, turning to stone, growing up too fast, loving different versions of the same person. The center of the earth.