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Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
fhirdiad's review
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Bit slow going, especially at first, and a bit of an anti-climatic end but the emotion in this book is visceral and the worldbuilding - even when itโs confusing - is beautiful and interesting. Nijiri was such a compelling character and was mainly the reason I finished this; he doesnโt seem to be in the sequel and I didnโt enjoy this enough to continue with the series but itโs not bad and it just makes me want more books about magic surrounding dreams.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault
whatellisreadnext's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ?
๐๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ง, ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด.
Gatherers keep the peace in Gujaareh, harvesting the magic of dreams, helping to heal and to soothe. Ehiru, a gatherer, stumbles upon a wrongness bleeding into the city. Someone, or something, is murdering innocent dreamers.
This duology was released 3 years before The Broken Earth Trilogy (my favourite trilogy of all time), and I can't help but feel like Jemisin hadn't quite found her voice yet as an author. Feeling like only a shadow of her incredible writing in The Fifth Season.
One of the things I loved about Broken Earth, was how attached I was to the characters, that even in their dullest moments, I was happy just to be with them. Whereas, in The Killing Moon, I felt detached, I struggled remembering the names of certain characters, I mixed up Nijiri and Ehiru so many times. It just felt as if I was watching the story unfold, but I was never really a part of it.
Something I did love in The Killing moon, was the magic system. Gatherers harvest dreams, they ease people into pain-free death, they feast on these dreams and become soley dependent on them. This was fascinating to me and is probably the main reason I will be picking up the next installment.
I think if I had gone into this book, not knowing who N.K. Jemisin was, I probably would have enjoyed it so much more. Don't let my review put you off, but if you haven't experienced her writing yet, definitely start with The Fifth Season ๐
๐๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ง, ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด.
Gatherers keep the peace in Gujaareh, harvesting the magic of dreams, helping to heal and to soothe. Ehiru, a gatherer, stumbles upon a wrongness bleeding into the city. Someone, or something, is murdering innocent dreamers.
This duology was released 3 years before The Broken Earth Trilogy (my favourite trilogy of all time), and I can't help but feel like Jemisin hadn't quite found her voice yet as an author. Feeling like only a shadow of her incredible writing in The Fifth Season.
One of the things I loved about Broken Earth, was how attached I was to the characters, that even in their dullest moments, I was happy just to be with them. Whereas, in The Killing Moon, I felt detached, I struggled remembering the names of certain characters, I mixed up Nijiri and Ehiru so many times. It just felt as if I was watching the story unfold, but I was never really a part of it.
Something I did love in The Killing moon, was the magic system. Gatherers harvest dreams, they ease people into pain-free death, they feast on these dreams and become soley dependent on them. This was fascinating to me and is probably the main reason I will be picking up the next installment.
I think if I had gone into this book, not knowing who N.K. Jemisin was, I probably would have enjoyed it so much more. Don't let my review put you off, but if you haven't experienced her writing yet, definitely start with The Fifth Season ๐
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence
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