The Fifth Season (Broken Earth Trilogy, #1)

by N. K. Jemisin

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It took me quite some time to get into the story. I didn't like the writing style at first and there were far too many characters for my taste at first. It made it really hard getting attached to any of them, to build up a connection and care about what happens to them. Additionally, it got confusing in the beginning with the timeline. When did what happen? This book made it really hard to make sense of the story at first.

I honestly just stuck around because first I don't like not finishing books, and second, the world Jemisin described sounded intriguing.

And I got a pleasant surprise, when it started to get so much better after the first third of the book. I got invested in the storyline and the characters, and even though the timeline was a bit difficult to figure out until almost the end, it started to come together.

The characters are very well built up and you can see amazing developement, it almost broke my heart every time you realized who they really were and that they were not going to get a happy ending

This review is very hard to write without giving away any spoilers, so I am going to leave it at this and just say, if you don't like the beginning, it is absolutely worth sticking through it! All in all, one of the best discoveries I have made this year.