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The Obelisk Gate, second book in The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin. Audio. The first book of the series The Fifth Season was a world building or world ending book with it's first sentence. "This is the way the world ends, for the last time." This second book continues with Essun who has not found her daughter yet but who has found a former acquaintance, Alabaster Tenring, who has a request of Essun. Nassun, Essun's daughter also has a large part in this second book. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She’ll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.

N. K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction. In 2016, she became the first black person to win the Best Novel Hugo for The Fifth Season. In 2017, she won Hugo Best Novel again, for The Obelisk Gate.

Rating: 4.625

I will be very surprised if she doesn't win the Hugo for The Stone Sky, because I think it's the best of the three. I felt she raised it another level.

I can't wait to finish this series ---- I think I'm going to dig in over Christmas holiday!