Orbit The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth, Book 3, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2018

Excellent, chaque tome est de plus en plus passionnant. Pas étonnant que cette trilogie ait gagné trois fois le prix Hugo, elle le mérite totalement. Et ce tome ci a reçu en prime le prix Nébula si je ne me trompe. On retrouve (presque) tous nos personnages et même si la fin laisse un peu sur la fin, on retrouve le plaisir des deux premiers tomes avec des personnages qui se développent en profondeur, toujours avec l'écriture si singulière de l'auteur. Ce tome est moins surprenant que le premier et moins riche en rebondissement que le troisième, néanmoins je l'ai adoré comme tous les autres.

The Stone Sky completes the trilogy in this Stable Act paperback edition. Like the earlier volumes, it has good paper quality, readable fonts, and a clean, premium-looking design. This edition is easy to read and handle, and it rounds off the trilogy beautifully. It’s a great addition to any fantasy collection and maintains the same high quality as the previous two books.

“None of us got here overnight. There are stages to the process of being betrayed by your society. One is jolted from a place of complacency by the discovery of difference, by hypocrisy, by inexplicable or incongruous ill treatment. What follows is a time of confusion-unlearning what one thought to be the truth. Immersing oneself in the new truth. And then a decision must be made.” The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin This conclusion the to Fifth Season absolutely slayed me. Honestly the whole book just keeps playing over and over in my head. The deep thoughts it evokes, the imagery it throws into your mind, the tumultuous feelings you have throughout it. There are very few books/series that have ever affected me quite like this. Where it’s hard to articulate just how profound the story was, & how much it means to me. N.K. Jemisin is absolutely brilliant & I hope she never stops putting out stories that make you question everything society is dictating & demanding of the common people, & the oppression & subjugation of anyone who’s different from the status quo. I’ll leave you with just one more quote to ponder over. “When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer by the friction of history. ("So you were slaves, so what?" they whisper. Like it's nothing.) But to the people who live through a slave rebellion, both those who take their dominance for granted until it comes for them in the dark, and those who would see the world burn before enduring one moment longer in "their place"_”

I won't go into too much details about the plot being the final book and all but I will say that it pretty much just continues where the last one left off. Our POV's are still mainly Essun and Nassun. The whole second person thing of Essun is still a bit annoying but I'm mostly used to it now. She still continues to be cool and seems to have accepted most of who she is. I also really enjoy the relationship she has with Hoa. There is something about Nassun that kind of grates on me. I know I should feel a lot of sympathy for her, considering her age and what she's gone through, and I do, but she also annoys me. Can't even point out exactly why but it's there. And her storyline is really interesting but it doesn't grip me as much as it should. We have a new POV in this book (kind of), that of Hoa and it is my favourite. It's set far far back in time and finally explains why the world is the way it is. We learn about how the stone eaters came to be, what the point of the obelisks are and many other things. It was really interesting and I found it the most enjoyable part of the book. I still don't know how to classify these books. In some ways they are straight up epic fantasy, in others straight up science fiction. It is really a unique set up in my experience and I enjoyed it immensely. The second person narrative finally makes sense, I thought it was to show Essun's shock and it could still be in some senses but there is a more prosaic reason for it which I only copped in this last book. Just to note I still don't like this style but here at least there is a solid reason for it. The actual end felt somewhat rushed but overall it was great, with nearly all questions answered satisfactory. This really is a pretty unique series and I would recommend it with the caveat that they second person is a bit jarring and creates distance between you and the characters. It is also a fairly dark and bleak series though there is also lots of hope and great moments too.

Fand die beiden Bände schon sehr interessant und "anders". Deser 3. Teil ist ohne "Verzehr" der beiden Vorgänger nicht selbsterklärend, d.h man sollte ihn wirklich als 3. Teil einer Trilogie betrachten und lesen. Wenn man das macht, ist er spannend und zeigt die Lösung und Erklärung einiger vorher angeschnitteter Themen auf. Er ist damit ein würdiger Abschluss einer empfehlenswerter Trilogie, kein Buch für einen hard-core SF-Fan aber ein Muss für jeden SFF-Fan