Fantasy · Science fiction
The Fifth Season
On a continent regularly shattered by world-ending seismic disasters, people called orogenes who can move the earth are feared and controlled. Three women of different ages, in three storylines, are each pursuing survival and answers.
- First published
- 2015
- Pace
- medium
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a demanding, brilliantly constructed fantasy that blends science fiction and uses a surprising narrative voice.
Skip this if you want comfort or an easy start, as it opens with a child's death and is bleak and confusing at first.
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