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N.K. Jemisin

8 reviewed book summaries currently available on Globusz Books.

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The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season

Ever feel like the world is just one big mess you’re forced to clean up, but nobody thanks you for it? Welcome to the life of the orogenes in N.K. Jemisin’s “The Fifth Season.” They’re the folks who keep the planet from ripping itself apart—and society treats them like lepers. If that sounds like a fun, feel-good read, you’re in the wrong place. But if you want a story that’s as messy, brutal, and honest as life itself, stick around.

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The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Obelisk Gate

Ever feel like the world is one giant mess you can’t fix, and everyone around you just makes it worse? Welcome to The Stillness—a place where the earth itself is out to get you, and being born with the power to stop it might just be a curse. N.K. Jemisin’s The Obelisk Gate doesn’t sugarcoat apocalypse or motherhood or power struggles. It’s messy, brutal, and strangely hopeful.

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The Broken Earth: The Obelisk Gate

Ever feel like your family drama could literally shake the world? Welcome to The Obelisk Gate, where mother-daughter tensions come with earth-splitting consequences. If you think your relatives are complicated, try being born with the power to cause earthquakes—and the whole society wants you dead or controlled.

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The Broken Kingdoms

Blind but not clueless, Oree Shoth sees more than most—and that’s exactly why trouble finds her in the shadowy underbelly of a city where gods have lost their shine. What happens when the divine get stripped of power and the line between mortal and godling blurs? Spoiler: it’s messy, dangerous, and a hell of a lot more interesting than your usual fantasy riff on gods and magic.

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The City We Became

Ever wonder what it’d be like if your city had a pulse, a personality, maybe even a grudge? N.K. Jemisin’s "The City We Became" isn’t just another fantasy novel—it's New York City, alive and kicking, literally. And it’s got a hell of a fight on its hands, with a ragtag team of borough avatars standing in for the city's soul.

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The Fifth Season

Ever feel like the world’s just one big, unstoppable disaster waiting to happen? Now imagine living on a planet where that’s literally true—where the ground beneath your feet can rip apart and swallow cities whole. Welcome to The Stillness, where survival isn’t just about luck, but about who controls the power to shake the earth itself. Spoiler: the people with that power are also the ones everyone fears and hates.

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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Ever been stuck in a family drama so twisted it feels like the fate of the world hangs in the balance? Now imagine that family controls gods like puppets. Welcome to N.K. Jemisin’s “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms,” where power games get divine and the throne is a noose—only the sharp survive.

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The Obelisk Gate

Ever feel like the world is just one long, exhausting disaster you can’t fix? Welcome to the Stillness, where earthquakes aren’t just a bad day—they’re civilization’s undoing. "The Obelisk Gate" doesn’t sugarcoat trauma or power struggles. It throws you into a cracked earth, a broken society, and people trying to survive when the ground—and their own lives—are constantly shifting.

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