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A review by thelostvoid
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
4.0
Read for the Orilium Spring Readathon 2025 Prompt: Demonology • Book with a missing person
I have had this trilogy on my shelves for a long-ass time, and in the spirit of this year being a year of me finally reading the completed series I own (and because it's the only book I have with a missing person plotline) I have finally started reading it! Partially through the audiobook on spotify, and partially with my own goddamn eyeballs.
As is tradition, I had no bloody idea what this was about other than a mother looking for her daughter, second person perspective for at least part of it and eating rocks. I was not disappointed in these respects. I liked the way the three perspectives were written, and wove together towards the end in a fun way. The world-building is interesting as hell and I definitely want to know what happens next. This did feel like an extended prologue to the main event of whatever the hell happens next, but I am not mad about it at all.
I have had this trilogy on my shelves for a long-ass time, and in the spirit of this year being a year of me finally reading the completed series I own (and because it's the only book I have with a missing person plotline) I have finally started reading it! Partially through the audiobook on spotify, and partially with my own goddamn eyeballs.
As is tradition, I had no bloody idea what this was about other than a mother looking for her daughter, second person perspective for at least part of it and eating rocks. I was not disappointed in these respects. I liked the way the three perspectives were written, and wove together towards the end in a fun way. The world-building is interesting as hell and I definitely want to know what happens next. This did feel like an extended prologue to the main event of whatever the hell happens next, but I am not mad about it at all.