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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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bookshelves: audio, dystopian, science-fiction, 2018-read, hugo-award
Jul 27, 2018
bookshelves: audio, dystopian, science-fiction, 2018-read, hugo-award
The Fifth Season was more fantasy than science fiction and for that reason I didn't enjoy it that much. I'm more of a hard science fiction fan and all the magic in this book was not for me.
The world (the Earth returned to Pangaea?) was really interesting and I was fascinated by the artifacts found from former seasons, and I thought they would lead the story down the path of discovering old technology or past civilizations but they really didn't.
I thought a number of the characters were interesting and well developed, and it was fun trying to figure out who the villains were and how they all fit together. I had a hard time buying in to the superpowers / magical abilities of the orogenes, the people able to manipulate the earth to the level of stopping earthquakes and reforming its crust. The Fifth Season it felt like a superhero novel at times, and that was an additional turn off. I didn't figure out the connections between the story lines, but I don't tend to catch on to these things easily. I thought the novel got more interesting as it went along, and the ending was a bit of a tease for the next book in the series but I don't think I'll read on.
I'll give this 2.5 stars rounded up due to its dark tone, interesting characters, and world building.
The world (the Earth returned to Pangaea?) was really interesting and I was fascinated by the artifacts found from former seasons, and I thought they would lead the story down the path of discovering old technology or past civilizations but they really didn't.
I thought a number of the characters were interesting and well developed, and it was fun trying to figure out who the villains were and how they all fit together. I had a hard time buying in to the superpowers / magical abilities of the orogenes, the people able to manipulate the earth to the level of stopping earthquakes and reforming its crust. The Fifth Season it felt like a superhero novel at times, and that was an additional turn off. I didn't figure out the connections between the story lines, but I don't tend to catch on to these things easily. I thought the novel got more interesting as it went along, and the ending was a bit of a tease for the next book in the series but I don't think I'll read on.
I'll give this 2.5 stars rounded up due to its dark tone, interesting characters, and world building.
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Reading Progress
July 16, 2018
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Started Reading
July 16, 2018
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July 16, 2018
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July 27, 2018
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audio
July 27, 2018
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science-fiction
July 27, 2018
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dystopian
July 27, 2018
– Shelved as:
2018-read
July 27, 2018
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Finished Reading
May 23, 2021
– Shelved as:
hugo-award
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Jul 16, 2018 03:03PM
This is a particularly weird series but I enjoyed it. It's pretty interesting and took me a while to get into it. Very original.
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It is interesting so far. It was recommended to me, but I'm really not in to fantasy and at all so I'm hoping it's more science fiction than fantasy. But I think I may be wrong.
Jeff wrote: "It is interesting so far. It was recommended to me, but I'm really not in to fantasy and at all so I'm hoping it's more science fiction than fantasy. But I think I may be wrong."I actually don't think it's either, but ultimately shelved it under "fantasy" because for me sci-fi has to deal in some way with space, starships, planets, alien life, the future--something close to that. This series is more like apocalyptic. I don't know. It's difficult to classify but I like that.
