Engagement:
Genre:
Science Fiction
Published:
2017
Page Count:
464
Where to Buy:
The Stone Sky
The Broken Earth
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3
Content Ratings
Intense Themes
The trilogy's conclusion forces both characters and readers to reckon with the accumulated weight of systemic oppression, parental love and failure, and the cost of survival in a world that treats an entire population as a resource.
High Violence
The conclusion involves civilizational-scale conflict, the deaths of significant characters, and the weight of choices made across all three volumes; violence is present but earned rather than gratuitous.
Synopsis
The conclusion of the Broken Earth trilogy brings Essun and Nassun toward a final confrontation at the literal center of the world's crisis, as the truth about the obelisk network, the Stone Eaters, and the world's original catastrophe is finally revealed. The trilogy concludes with full emotional force, making good on the devastating setup of its predecessors. A Hugo Award winner for the third consecutive year, making Jemisin the first author to achieve that distinction.