This was a fantastic book! It had excellent world building, compelling, interesting characters and a refreshingly unique and endlessly fascinating magic system. Jemisin creates a fantastic, brutal world plagued by intermittent cataclysms called Seasons, on a single supercontinent called the Stillness, humans fight for survival against a planet that seems bent on destroying them.

This was a book I stayed up late finishing because I couldn’t stop and I’m so glad there are two more books in the series.