The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin is a collection of Sci-fi fantasy unlike anything I’ve ever read. Jemisin so completely creates and populates a new world in the future, where all the rules of survival have changed, it took me most of the first book to entirely grasp it. I actually found this tiresome at first, but am glad that I stuck with it.

By the final book I couldn’t put it down. It is a coming of age story, a mother daughter drama, a hero’s journey, a futuristic survival fantasy and an epic new world building masterpiece sure to thrill readers of many different genres.