{"id":2784,"date":"2021-09-08T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T03:09:20","slug":"book-the-stone-sky-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/book-the-stone-sky-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Stone Sky (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Stone Sky
<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017
Author: N.K. Jemisin
Length: 862 minutes \/ 14.37 hours<\/p>\n

I have to say I\u2019m a bit disappointed with The Stone Sky<\/em>. It took me some time to get used to the way the author wrote the Broken Earth<\/em> trilogy, but by the end of the second book, The Obelisk Gate<\/em><\/a>, I had bought into the premise. The fact that this book had a lot to live up to with the foreshadowing presented in the second book might be why I\u2019m disappointed with the result. After all, I was looking forward to some epic moments involving the moon, which didn\u2019t seem to materialize for me.<\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019ve finished this trilogy, I\u2019m starting to wonder if the reason it didn\u2019t quite fully click for me was because I was reading it via audiobook. There seemed to be a lot that I missed that would leave me confused about who the characters were, what they were doing, and why they were doing it. Perhaps if I had dedicated time to focusing on these audiobooks instead of listening while I was doing other things, I would have liked the series more. As it stands though, I probably couldn\u2019t tell you what the point of this book was without going back and rereading it.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the Broken Earth<\/em> trilogy is well written. The language might be a little too poetic at times and the fantasy setting introduces a lot of terminology that was difficult to keep track of, but I can see the appeal of it. The magic system is truly unique, even if the explanation for its origins made less sense than if it was just an unexplainable magic force. I do appreciate that most of the loose ends were wrapped up and either explained or made into moot points by the series\u2019 conclusion. And while the resolution of this trilogy felt a little clich\u00e9, at least it provided an ending that most would come to expect from this type of sub-genre.<\/p>\n

A pretty good trilogy wrap-up that might need a second read-through, I give The Stone Sky<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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