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The third and last entry in Jamisin's Broken Earth trilogy, The Stone Sky. Good God it's great. Hard to break into the series and I always feel like I'm a step behind the plot, but not so much that I've lost the thread entirely and just want to give up. It's a delicate dance between author and reader that takes such a deft and skilled touch that I'm floored by not just the skill involved but the gall it takes to skate so close to totally alienating your audience. But damn does it pay off.
A quote from it I grabbed to share earlier:
Interesting quote, what's a quick elevator pitch for the trilogy? ``
Well, I hate to phone it in, but I have tried and failed to write one a few times now. So I've let someone else write one for me. Take as much or as little of this as you think is worthy of "elevator pitch"; any one paragraph will do but the most condensed for your intentions would probably be the third.
This is such a glowing review. I think I'll check it out.