![]() Well now I have, and whilst I might be one of the last fantasy fans on Earth to do so, I’m here to recommend five reasons why you should too. I’d even picked up the second volume, The Obelisk Gate, as part of a special offer somewhere along the line, but I just had gotten around to picking up The Fifth Season. Fortunately for me, in celebration of Jemisin’s third Hugo win, her UK publisher was offering review copies of The Fifth Season for book reviewers who were still living in those dark times where they hadn’t read a Broken Earth book. The books have been acclaimed just about everywhere I’ve looked. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy has been on my radar for a long time, not least because each book in the series has won the Hugo Award. Which is why I’ve only just come to read N.K. There just isn’t time to read everything. This despite having bookshelves stuffed full and overflowing. ![]() ![]() On this visit, time and concentration restraints restricted our attention to only the children’s floor, but nevertheless, I found half a dozen or more books I desperately wanted to read. On a family trip to London, we popped into Waterstones’ (pretty much the UK’s only remaining chain of bookstores) flagship store on Picadilly. I was reminded this week that there are too many good books in the world. ![]()
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