With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. Jemisin (Author) (15,465) Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row. My only criticism, as a self-confessed literalist, is that some of the storytelling can be a bit ephemeral, but if you don't mind the occasional vagueness of the prose (this is not a criticism of the writer's ability, just a personal preference) then this series has nothing to detract from the enjoyment it otherwise consistently delivers. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) by N. While forces of incomprehensible power are on display, there's also a very human and intimate element to the central plot of a woman who has loved, lost all, recovered, and is again threatened with loss of everything of value to her.

The plot follows a few (but ultimately focuses on two) of the subset of humans that can control geological forces - the flow of magma, the movement of continental faults, the raising and lowering of mountainous amounts of rock. I'm reviewing all three books in the series with this one review, in part because (duh) it's a series and if you're going to read one book you should commit to all three, and also because, more than most trilogies, there's little separation from one novel to the next these could easily have been published as one book as there isn't much sense of a climax, or a pause in the narrative, at the ends of the first two books. Highly imaginative and genuinely original series that, if one must assign a category, probably falls closer to fantasy than science fiction.

The stone sky series