![]() ![]() For book one, The Fifth Season, the second-person technique was shocking and made the book stand out. ![]() This means that in alternating chapters, the address shifts from “I” to “you” to “Nassun,” from first-person to second-person to third-person. One major shift in The Stone Sky from its predecessors is that the narrator here becomes his own point-of-view character, joining Essun and her daughter Nassun. Namely, she employs the second-person point-of-view, the use of three point-of-view characters in alternating chapters and a fictional universe where the rigorous magic system functions much like a science, though it does veer more towards the inexplicable as the book progresses. In The Stone Sky, Jemisin maintains much of the style and structure she adopted in the first two books. It is the usual way of wrapping up a fantasy trilogy, but The Broken Earth closes with a particularly well-executed one. Jemisin crafts the showdown so that everything in the trilogy crescendos into one final set piece. ![]() ![]() With the seemingly bleak future of that world on the line, Essun is forced to face off against both her own nagging sense of inadequacy as well as an opposing side consisting of her daughter and her old nemesis Schaffa. As the final book in the multi-award-winning The Broken Earth trilogy, The Stone Sky provides a twisting, satisfying conclusion to the story of the Final Season, the orogene known as Essun and a magical world that has raised many mysteries to snag readers’ interest. ![]()
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