"I think that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back."

Wow. Just.  I'm really at loss of what to say here because I feel a lot of my feelings are already in my two previous reviews of this trilogy.

To make it short: The Broken Earth has one of the most interesting voices I've ever read. It's gritty and, well, broken, but its message is kind and hopeful.

This is a story about motherhood and relationships, about what it means to be a person in contrast to what it is being a people. It's asking us how we interact with the world and with eachother.

The only reason this isn't a five stars like the other two previous instalments is because, while the addition of a Hoa pov was so so delicate and contrasting with the other two, I struggled a lot with Nassun's.

Maybe because of her age, maybe because the narrator didn't have the same connection to her as to Essun, her side of the story felt way more expositional and I didn't care as much.

Regardless, the ending wrapped up everything beautifully and the trilogy will really stick with me. (I recommended it to every single one of my friends)