If they are not killed by their family or community, they are given to a Guardian, to be trained at a location called the Fulcrum inside the city of Yumenes. They are widely hated and feared, and many are murdered by small-town mobs when their powers are discovered in childhood. When this occurs, a visible circle of frost appears around them and living things can be flash-frozen solid. They can cause and prevent earthquakes, and when angered can unintentionally kill living things in their " torus", or area of influence, by extracting the heat from their bodies to use as energy to manipulate the ground.
Every few centuries, its inhabitants endure what they call a "Fifth Season" of catastrophic climate change.
The Fifth Season takes place on a planet with a single supercontinent called the Stillness. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. I can't wait to jump right back in and explore more of the Stillness.The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fantasy novel by N. I'm glad I already had the second book on hand or I would have made a mad dash to buy it. There is occasional upsetting content so check triggers. Don't make my mistake: there IS an appendix in the back that I discovered once I finished the book. I wanted to give this a 5 but people are correct in that the world building, while a fantastic world that does take on being a character of its own, there are some confusing terms that either don't get fully explained or take a long time to make sense. The characters are all bad asses in a unique way and the growth is immaculate. It takes some getting used to, if only because I think this may be the second time ever I read a book in that POV. The book pivots between the point of view of three women, one of which being in second person. There isn't too much detail I can into it as it's very twist and turny from the beginning and saying anything more than the blurb will take away from the experience. Jemisin is masterful and poetic in her writing and there are so many beautiful passages. I picked this up years ago on a recommendation for fans of the game Horizon: Zero Dawn and I am MAD at myself for taking so long to actually read this.
“Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Death is the Fifth, and Master of All.”
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