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Sep 11, 2019IndyPL_SteveB rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Terrifically tense and exciting sequel to *The Fifth Season*. All three books in this fantasy series won the Hugo Award for best novel. Jemisin’s world might be a far-future version of the Earth, when all of the continents have drifted back together into one land mass. Humanity is barely hanging on, because the forces of the moving tectonic plates, volcanoes, and earthquakes frequently destroy parts of civilization. Each one of these events can be so devastating that the atmospheric effects can last for decades, in what people call “Fifth Seasons.” In the second book, we discover that Jemisin has developed a fantasy solution for a science fiction problem – around 25,000 years previously an earlier civilization developed a super weapon to kill their enemies. A misuse of this weapon caused the moon to change its orbit so that it is rarely seen. The loss of the moon apparently began the Fifth Seasons. While the tension and action is nearly unstoppable, the characters again hold our attention. It is often difficult to know who is supposed to be saving the world and who destroying it, because we really don’t understand the motivations of the various survivors. All of the main characters are deeply dangerous and capable of killing large numbers of people. A magnificent series.