This book has the best representation I've ever read in a SFF novel. This book mirrors the society we live in today and makes you think about all those uncomfortable topics you'd rather ignore and pretend do not exist.
This book is unlike anything I've ever read, but it felt so seamlessly woven. This is one of those books that make you feel absolutely guilty for giving out five stars to other books. This book is beautiful, this book is smart, this book is oh so heartbreaking, and this book is a masterpiece. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze - the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years - collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Three terrible things happen in a single day.
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