The Fifth Season by N.K.Jemisin: Review
As far as well written fantasy novels go, The Fifth Season (TFS) by N. K. Jemisin is a beautiful tale that is a good read for anyone that loves the genre. As the first part of ‘The Broken Earth’ series, TFS encourages readers to want to read further into the dystopian, ecologically unstable world that Jemisin has created. As someone who almost never delves into the realm of fantasy reads I found this book had a lot to offer. The well written characters and intricately crafted world, sucked me right into the pages almost as soon as I was half way down the first page. Again for me, the decision to purchase this book was firstly the presence of it on the amazon homepage, initially I dismissed it as it looked too fantasy-type for me and I went off in search of some historical fiction to whet my appetite instead. However, a few days after this I was on a blog that was listing out something along the lines of ‘Black, female fiction writers’ and sure enough there was ‘The Fifth...