Orbit The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth, Book 3, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2018

Excellent, chaque tome est de plus en plus passionnant. Pas étonnant que cette trilogie ait gagné trois fois le prix Hugo, elle le mérite totalement. Et ce tome ci a reçu en prime le prix Nébula si je ne me trompe. On retrouve (presque) tous nos personnages et même si la fin laisse un peu sur la fin, on retrouve le plaisir des deux premiers tomes avec des personnages qui se développent en profondeur, toujours avec l'écriture si singulière de l'auteur. Ce tome est moins surprenant que le premier et moins riche en rebondissement que le troisième, néanmoins je l'ai adoré comme tous les autres.

The Stone Sky completes the trilogy in this Stable Act paperback edition. Like the earlier volumes, it has good paper quality, readable fonts, and a clean, premium-looking design. This edition is easy to read and handle, and it rounds off the trilogy beautifully. It’s a great addition to any fantasy collection and maintains the same high quality as the previous two books.

The world is reeling under the advent of a new Fifth Season, one that threatens to destroy civilisation altogether. Essun and her daughter Nassun are both aware that the return of the long-lost Moon may help resolve the crisis, but their goals are diametrically opposed. With Essun's community recovering from a brutal military confrontation and Nassun's mentor critically ill, both will have to overcome great obstacles to reach their goal...and each other. Concluding a trilogy when the first two volumes have been acclaimed as the finest fantasy novels of the decade, won a multitude of awards and been optioned for television is a bit of an undertaking, but one that N.K. Jemisin has pulled off with an aplomb. The Stone Sky concludes the Broken Earth trilogy, a post-apocalyptic fantasy of the "Dying Earth" school, set in the far future when the world has become a stranger place where the lines between sorcery, magic and science have become blurred by tens of thousands of years of progress. The previous volume in the series, The Obelisk Gate, left our characters in difficult predicaments. The Stone Sky soon sets them on their way to a final confrontation where the fate of the world will be decided. So far, so standard. But The Stone Sky isn't your standard fantasy novel. The final confrontation is a clash of ideas and perspectives informed by the well-developed characters and their experiences, not a rote clash of armies (which arguably we got in The Obelisk Gate anyway). Instead, The Stone Sky is a surprisingly quiet novel. The principle action unfolds through conversations between the characters and through lengthy flashback sequences revealing how the Earth lost the Moon in the first place and how the highly advanced civilisation which caused the Shattering fell from grace. Woven through this is a theme of intolerance: the orogenes of the present-day story being outcast and persecuted for being Other, but also used for their power. This is echoed by events in the flashback story, where entire races are enslaved and persecuted out of fear, but then used for their power. The Stone Sky, as with the rest of the trilogy, explores powerful themes of disempowerment, slavery and fear of the unknown, but also wraps an interesting and gripping narrative, all built on some very accomplished worldbuilding. This mix of atmosphere, character, theme and story is excellently-handled and recalls the best work of Ursula K. Le Guin: a book where all of the individual pieces that went into making it complement one another and deliver a novel that is far more than the some of its parts. The novel is not quite perfect. Like The Obelisk Gate, the pace sags on occasion and this is made more noticeable by the lengthy flashbacks to the Shattering. These flashbacks are interesting and beautifully-written, but only reveal a moderate amount of new information not previously given in dialogue. The book isn't quite the equal of The Fifth Season in its pacing and story structure, although the difference is not too egregious. Overall, The Stone Sky (****½) ends one of the finest fantasy series of recent years in final form, wrong-footing expectations and building on the accomplishments of the first two books in the series.

Fand die beiden Bände schon sehr interessant und "anders". Deser 3. Teil ist ohne "Verzehr" der beiden Vorgänger nicht selbsterklärend, d.h man sollte ihn wirklich als 3. Teil einer Trilogie betrachten und lesen. Wenn man das macht, ist er spannend und zeigt die Lösung und Erklärung einiger vorher angeschnitteter Themen auf. Er ist damit ein würdiger Abschluss einer empfehlenswerter Trilogie, kein Buch für einen hard-core SF-Fan aber ein Muss für jeden SFF-Fan

I just started with this final part of the trilogy but the story as promised really make you addict. For non native english reader, i warning nevertheless : the vocabulary is large enough to impact the reading if you as i do don't use a dictionary. But, at the end, the story is really nice and characters really deeply described.