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The Stone Sky

The Broken Earth, Book 3

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The Stone Sky

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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The remarkable conclusion to the record-breaking triple Hugo Award-winning fantasy trilogy that began with The Fifth Season.

Winner of the Hugo Award 2018

Winner of the Nebula Award 2018

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy 2018

An Amazon Best Book of the Year

The incredible conclusion to the record-breaking triple Hugo award-winning trilogy that began with the The Fifth Season.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every outcast child can grow up safe.

For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

2019, International Dublin Literary Award, Long-listed

2018, Hugo Award Best Novel category, Short-listed

©2017 Little Brown (P)2017 N. K. Jemisin Classics Fantasy Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Amazing." (Ann Leckie)

"Breaks uncharted ground." (Library Journal)
"Beautiful." (Nnedi Okorafor)
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This trilogy was so cool
Voice performance confusing at times and had to repeat some sections to figure out who was talking. Variations in accents from each character.

Story had me hooked!

Great trilogy. Awesome story. Voice performance variable

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loved listening to.this story
really enjoyed the story line had trouble putting it down

great read

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These books were incredible!! If you’re a fan of post apocalyptic novels, you will love this series!!

The story was engaging, brutal, funny, truthful, awesome.

I loved it.

Incredible trilogy!

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I really enjoyed concluding the story started with The Fifth Season. I especially liked how all the pieces came together in this book.
At times, however, the story was hard to follow, partly because of the language used and the writing style.
I pushed through and continued listening and was glad to have finished it but felt like I really had to concentrate a lot of the time.
Narration was good.

Good story, sometimes hard to follow

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Beautiful and moving series, so much pain and humanity on display in amazing and horrific scenarios. The world has so much thought and love in it with a very inventive ans capivating way of telling a story. I would highly reccomend!

Beautiful and moving series, I highly reccomend!

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The story was so original and so well crafted. The lore and world building being dense at times had a fabulous payoff.

Solid!

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All three books were amazing. Couldn’t wait to listen to the end. I love that the story didn’t slow down. I was absorbed in it the whole three books.

Couldn’t put it down

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If you were to judge this book by it's predecessors you would probably walk away like I did a little disappointed and unresolved.
Is it a good book in its' own right? probably.
Did I enjoy the final chapters of this amazing saga? not as much as I'd hoped...

Worst of a good series.

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Perfect ending to an amazing trilogy. Was balling at the end. So wonderfully written!

Amazing Ending to this trilogy

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I was a bit confused on who was talking at some points, and with quite of a bit of geode talk, but overall, a good ending to a great series. love the narrator

good

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