![]() ![]() But even if the ending was better than the beginning, it was never what I had hoped for.įirst of all, the beginning was messy. I had to push through it, always hoping that it would turn around and slap me in the face with awesomeness. I often rate based on my reading experience, and reading The City We Became wasn't enjoyable for me. I want to begin by saying that me giving this book a three-star rating is me being generous because I can't stand to rate a book by Jemisin lower than that. “This is the lesson: Great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn.” And it appears that the city that never sleeps doesn't only have one soul - it has six. At first, it looks like New York will make it, but then everything goes wrong. Like stillbirths, or otherwordly eldritch creatures attacking, trying to stop the birth from happening. That's why it broke my heart when I didn't find myself in love with The City We Became.Īll remarkable cities have souls, and are born. Jemisin doesn't play by the rules instead she creates her own, stomping all over both genres and everything binary to create something amazing that is purely hers. ![]() When I first read The Fifth Season, it was like taking a cold shower - almost like waking up, since I had no idea that you could actually write like that. Let me show you what lurks in the empty spaces where nightmares dare not tread.” ![]()
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