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A review by kelsyer
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
adventurous
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
3.75
Well, here it is, my love, the end of the world.
Was it everything you were hoping for? No, of course not.
You sessed parts of it, possibly more than your comm anticipated that you would, but you were always observant. Why would the end change you?
*
Oh, rust. Oh, Earth.
In all seriousness, I had to take a few hours to think about the third installment.
I felt that there were additions in this book that were ultimately only added to increase the significance of the sacrifices for us (when so much of their life was about just that) and to show us that things are dire indeed. (If anybody had any doubt about that at this point, they were reading a very different story.)
I liked our time in the distant past, but I wish that after Zero, we got more information about the bloodline. It felt a bit misconnected for me, too quickly discarded (although yes, time passed, memories got lost, I get that).
In my review about the Fifth Season, I wrote that I don't really get how the magic system works, but possibly most of them don't, either. My biggest issue with this book is that this remained the case (I understood the reasoning behind this and I loved how it was woven in all through the trilogy), except when it comes to a certain Prodigy.
I marked down the previous books because of this as well. In the end, my rating for this book is 3.75 rounded up to 4 stars (in my living memory, this is the first book that I couldn't place at half or full stars).
There are many chacters that I wish I didn't have to say goodbye to. I hope that there is another story somewhere that documents their past (or from my current point of view, future).
And I would also like to take this time to remark, just for myself, how far I've come. In the past I would have been so pissed at the motivation of the Prodigy, I would have rated this book 2 stars max. That's on character growth.
Was it everything you were hoping for? No, of course not.
You sessed parts of it, possibly more than your comm anticipated that you would, but you were always observant. Why would the end change you?
*
Oh, rust. Oh, Earth.
In all seriousness, I had to take a few hours to think about the third installment.
I felt that there were additions in this book that were ultimately only added to increase the significance of the sacrifices for us (when so much of their life was about just that) and to show us that things are dire indeed. (If anybody had any doubt about that at this point, they were reading a very different story.)
I liked our time in the distant past, but I wish that after Zero, we got more information about the bloodline. It felt a bit misconnected for me, too quickly discarded (although yes, time passed, memories got lost, I get that).
In my review about the Fifth Season, I wrote that I don't really get how the magic system works, but possibly most of them don't, either. My biggest issue with this book is that this remained the case (I understood the reasoning behind this and I loved how it was woven in all through the trilogy), except when it comes to a certain Prodigy.
I marked down the previous books because of this as well. In the end, my rating for this book is 3.75 rounded up to 4 stars (in my living memory, this is the first book that I couldn't place at half or full stars).
There are many chacters that I wish I didn't have to say goodbye to. I hope that there is another story somewhere that documents their past (or from my current point of view, future).
And I would also like to take this time to remark, just for myself, how far I've come. In the past I would have been so pissed at the motivation of the Prodigy, I would have rated this book 2 stars max. That's on character growth.