The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk Gate

2016 • 411 pages

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Average rating4.3

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Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices will break the world. N. K. Jemisin's award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season.

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The Broken Earth

The Broken Earth is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by N.K. Jemisin.

The Fifth Season
The Obelisk Gate
The Stone Sky

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October 12, 2016

Don't ever cross her
her mother's daughter, no lie
she will ice you out.

July 23, 2017

An amazing story written in amazing language.

September 18, 2018

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