Take a photo of a barcode or cover
antrapp1026 's review for:
The Killing Moon
by N.K. Jemisin
While not as monumentally successful an achievement as N.K Jemisin’s later work — the brilliant, shattering, transcendent Broken Earth Trilogy — I remain nonetheless very impressed by many aspects of this novel. In its finest scenes, an incredibly rare and welcome complexity of feelings and ideas suffuses the crystalline prose. And the world she has created — with its various and specifically-drawn cultures, societies, histories, and religions — presents itself as fully-imagined and authentic as any I’ve ever read. Where this novel falls short here and there is in some of its dialogue, especially from its central villain; I’m not convinced that the formality of the language in the dialogue is ultimately the best choice Jemisin could have made; and there’s just enough mustache-twirling gusto in the villain that I longed for just a bit more restraint. Another pet peeve present in the novel is an overabundance of sighing that takes place, from almost every main character, and often multiple times in a scene; I’m glad that particular quirk in the writing didn’t occur in The Broken Earth Trilogy.
In a very meaningful way, it’s inspiring to see how far Jemisin has come since writing this novel, given the fact that this, with all of its flaws, is still far more involving, complex, and original than pretty much any other contemporary fantasy literature I’ve read. I will definitely read its sequel.
In a very meaningful way, it’s inspiring to see how far Jemisin has come since writing this novel, given the fact that this, with all of its flaws, is still far more involving, complex, and original than pretty much any other contemporary fantasy literature I’ve read. I will definitely read its sequel.