Narrated by Robin Miles
Epic/High Fantasy, Dark/Grimdark Fantasy, Mythic Fantasy
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Ranked #14 in Complete Grimdark
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Ranked #14 in Complete Grimdark
On a seismically volatile continent plagued by recurring apocalypses, orogenes with the power to control the earth are feared and subjugated. When the worst cataclysm yet begins, Essun's husband murders their young son and kidnaps their daughter, forcing her across a collapsing world to track them down.
How it ends: Most readers feel the world-shaking climax ties up every thread, though some note heavy exposition in the final book.
465 pages15h audio2015
The Fifth Season opens the trilogy as the worst apocalypse in memory begins: a great red rift tears across the continent, ash blots out the sun, and Essun discovers her husband has killed their orogene son and fled with their daughter.
Told in three interwoven timelines — and in a startling second person — the book establishes the brutal world of the Stillness and the enslaved people born to control its destructive power.
448 pages13h audio2016
The Obelisk Gate follows Essun as she finds shelter in a hidden comm while Alabaster — the orogene who broke the world — asks her to finish what he started.
Meanwhile her daughter Nassun grows rapidly in power and rage, and the choices these two women make in isolation from each other begin to converge toward a catastrophic reckoning with the ancient obelisk network.
398 pages14h audio2017
The Stone Sky brings the trilogy to its shattering conclusion as the Moon approaches and the fate of the Stillness must be decided by two women who love each other and want opposite things.
Essun, bearing the power of Alabaster, seeks a future where orogene children can live free; Nassun, having seen too much evil, believes the only mercy is annihilation — and only one of them can use the Obelisk Gate.
