Orbit The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth, Book 3, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2018

Excellent, chaque tome est de plus en plus passionnant.Pas étonnant que cette trilogie ait gagné trois fois le prix Hugo, elle le mérite totalement. Et ce tome ci a reçu en prime le prix Nébula si je ne me trompe.On retrouve (presque) tous nos personnages et même si la fin laisse un peu sur la fin, on retrouve le plaisir des deux premiers tomes avec des personnages qui se développent en profondeur, toujours avec l'écriture si singulière de l'auteur. Ce tome est moins surprenant que le premier et moins riche en rebondissement que le troisième, néanmoins je l'ai adoré comme tous les autres.

Realmente no sé qué decir.El final es... es... Demasiado para condensarlo en pocas palabras, porque se junta la desesperación y el amor la rabia y la esperanza y el dolor y...Tenemos tres voces en esta novela, aunque siempre es el mismo narrador. Gracias a las tres, hilamos un tapiz en el que casi podemos contemplar al completo el pasado para saber porqué el presente es como es. Y, misericordiosamente, se nos deja el futuro abierto.Jemisin siempre me toca la fibra. En esta novela no ha sido menos y le agradezco infinito que agite de tal forma mis cimientos, porque me hace pensar y replantearme muchas cosas. Si Jemisin no completa el trío de Hugos con esta novela, es que no hay justicia en el mundo.

The world is reeling under the advent of a new Fifth Season, one that threatens to destroy civilisation altogether. Essun and her daughter Nassun are both aware that the return of the long-lost Moon may help resolve the crisis, but their goals are diametrically opposed. With Essun's community recovering from a brutal military confrontation and Nassun's mentor critically ill, both will have to overcome great obstacles to reach their goal...and each other.Concluding a trilogy when the first two volumes have been acclaimed as the finest fantasy novels of the decade, won a multitude of awards and been optioned for television is a bit of an undertaking, but one that N.K. Jemisin has pulled off with an aplomb. The Stone Sky concludes the Broken Earth trilogy, a post-apocalyptic fantasy of the "Dying Earth" school, set in the far future when the world has become a stranger place where the lines between sorcery, magic and science have become blurred by tens of thousands of years of progress.The previous volume in the series, The Obelisk Gate, left our characters in difficult predicaments. The Stone Sky soon sets them on their way to a final confrontation where the fate of the world will be decided. So far, so standard. But The Stone Sky isn't your standard fantasy novel. The final confrontation is a clash of ideas and perspectives informed by the well-developed characters and their experiences, not a rote clash of armies (which arguably we got in The Obelisk Gate anyway).Instead, The Stone Sky is a surprisingly quiet novel. The principle action unfolds through conversations between the characters and through lengthy flashback sequences revealing how the Earth lost the Moon in the first place and how the highly advanced civilisation which caused the Shattering fell from grace. Woven through this is a theme of intolerance: the orogenes of the present-day story being outcast and persecuted for being Other, but also used for their power. This is echoed by events in the flashback story, where entire races are enslaved and persecuted out of fear, but then used for their power.The Stone Sky, as with the rest of the trilogy, explores powerful themes of disempowerment, slavery and fear of the unknown, but also wraps an interesting and gripping narrative, all built on some very accomplished worldbuilding. This mix of atmosphere, character, theme and story is excellently-handled and recalls the best work of Ursula K. Le Guin: a book where all of the individual pieces that went into making it complement one another and deliver a novel that is far more than the some of its parts.The novel is not quite perfect. Like The Obelisk Gate, the pace sags on occasion and this is made more noticeable by the lengthy flashbacks to the Shattering. These flashbacks are interesting and beautifully-written, but only reveal a moderate amount of new information not previously given in dialogue. The book isn't quite the equal of The Fifth Season in its pacing and story structure, although the difference is not too egregious.Overall, The Stone Sky (****½) ends one of the finest fantasy series of recent years in final form, wrong-footing expectations and building on the accomplishments of the first two books in the series.

I just started with this final part of the trilogy but the story as promised really make you addict. For non native english reader, i warning nevertheless : the vocabulary is large enough to impact the reading if you as i do don't use a dictionary.But, at the end, the story is really nice and characters really deeply described.

“None of us got here overnight. There are stages to the process of being betrayed by your society. One is jolted from a place of complacency by the discovery of difference, by hypocrisy, by inexplicable or incongruous ill treatment. What follows is a time of confusion-unlearning what one thought to be the truth. Immersing oneself in the new truth. And then a decision must be made.”The Stone Sky by N.K. JemisinThis conclusion the to Fifth Season absolutely slayed me. Honestly the whole book just keeps playing over and over in my head. The deep thoughts it evokes, the imagery it throws into your mind, the tumultuous feelings you have throughout it. There are very few books/series that have ever affected me quite like this. Where it’s hard to articulate just how profound the story was, & how much it means to me. N.K. Jemisin is absolutely brilliant & I hope she never stops putting out stories that make you question everything society is dictating & demanding of the common people, & the oppression & subjugation of anyone who’s different from the status quo. I’ll leave you with just one more quote to ponder over.“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn finer by the friction of history. ("So you were slaves, so what?" they whisper. Like it's nothing.) But to the people who live through a slave rebellion, both those who take their dominance for granted until it comes for them in the dark, and those who would see the world burn before enduring one moment longer in "their place"_”