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finished reading The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #3)

N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky (Paperback, 2017, Orbit US)

The Moon will soon return.

Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something …

Content warning Heavy spoilers/questions

reviewed The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)

N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate (Paperback, 2016, Orbit)

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of …

Enjoyable

I sometimes feel like I missed something important but that's just NK Jemsin's style I realized by now (explaining it implicitly later).

Also not quite understanding what the "contaminated" Guardians are up to.

Generally I really liked it again and will go to the next one immediately.

commented on The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (Broken Earth, #1)

N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season (2015)

A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.

IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across …

Content warning Question, Full spoilers, only click if already read

Uwe Timm: Morenga (Paperback, 2005, New Directions Publishing Corporation)

Uwe Timm (Headhunter, The Invention of Curried Sausage) has been described in The New Yorker …

Puh, das war ja was. Hat nochmal die zahlreichen Greueltaten der Kolonialzeit verdeutlicht.

Um morenga ging es wenig und auch der Protagonist taucht nur hier und da auf. Mir war nicht immer klar, ob ich nun gerade Fiktion oder Originalquellen lese, teilweise auch recht verworren. Fand es dadurch recht anstrengend zu lesen, muss aber sagen, dass sich das meiste ganz gut zusammengefügt hat.

commented on Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)

Margaret Killjoy: Sapling Cage (Paperback, 2024, Feminist Press at The City University of New York)

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …

Really enjoying this! Don't get to read a lot currently but it's great to get back to Lorel and her coven every night.