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Nov 13, 2018WittySofa rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
THE OBELISK GATE: N. K. JEMISIN This is the second book in the Broken Sky trilogy, and it just keeps getting better. This book does not disappoint; it pulls you in and makes you gasp and lean forward in your seat in order to find out just where this is going. CHARACTERS: Essun is dealing with finding her daughter, Nassun, dealing with her dying mentor and with her stone eater friend. Schaffa, on the other hand, is really creepy, in the way that you never really know what he is thinking, and he is probably the character that I find the most interesting, even though I find Essun the most empathizable. PLOT: Essun trains to use the floating obelisks to lasso the moon with orogeny. Meanwhile, the underground city is threatened by rivals and natural fire-explosive-bug-things. Oh, and lots of crazy scientific/magic things happen again that you can really only understand if you read the book. Trust me, this plot is good. Really good. ACCURACY: I really like (and I said this for Fifth Season) how this world just combines science and magic. I really wouldn’t know where to shelve it, under Fantasy or SciFi (They’re on my SciFi shelf just because I have no room on my Fantasy shelf) because science and magic can’t be separated. RECOMMENDATION: Five out of Five. Definitely for a more mature audience. This book is really good, and the shifts in perspective may be a little confusing at first, but only add to the novel as a whole.