The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThis is the way the world ends for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia

and deep curiosity about art

The book reached the best seller list for The New York Times

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago

if you could carry all the starsin the palm of your hand

is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower

daunting task: to find the crystal sword

Have you noticed how the onion has so many layers

his dreams for the future

We learn of Shonku being outwitted by his own invention

One fight for justice

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