I became a fan of Nora’s after reading The Inheritance Trilogy — a brilliant trilogy that deserves its own accolades and review. This fourteen-hundred-page collection is gorgeously written and an amazing read.

Admittedly, I’m relatively new to the genre having only read maybe a dozen or so fantasy books. They’d all pretty much been consistent (read: white heteronormative bland European stan-fests), but this? I love Nora’s sly wit and imagination and those characters — characters she wrote with such originality, empathy, and yes, a woman’s perspective — a black woman’s perspective and awareness that brutally lays open oppression and otherness; such a refreshing disruption to the entire realm of the white male-dominated literary fantasy world. I was shocked this series didn’t win any awards.

Well, then I read The Broken Earth Series.

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The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season / The Obelisk Gate / The Stone Sky