Friday Firsts is a new meme that will run every Friday here on Tenacious Reader. It will feature the first few sentences/paragraph of my current book and my first impressions as well. It’s meant to be a quick and easy way to share a bit about what I am reading, and I would love to hear others join in sharing their current reads as well.
SPOILER WARNING: I am going to add a warning here, if you have not read The Fifth Season, I wouldn’t recommend reading this quote!
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) Published by Orbit on August 18th 2016
Pages: 448
HMM. NO. I’M TELLING THIS WRONG.
After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one’s being. I am me, and you. Damaya was herself and the family that rejected her and the people of the Fulcrum who chiseled her to a fine point. Syenite was Alabaster and Innon and the people of poor lost Allia and Meov. Now you are Tirimo and the ash-strewn road’s walkers and your dead children… and also the living one who remains. Whom you will get back.
That’s not a spoiler. You are Essun, after all. You know this already.
— Jemisin, N. K.. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) Orbit. Kindle Edition.
My First Impressions
Honestly, my first impression is that I am not sure I remember enough from The Fifth Season. And I hate to say it. But the use of second person distracts me. I am guessing listening to the audio version of it might make it worse, I’m not sure. But it bothered me a bit in the first book as well, and I loved the story so much in the end I didn’t care. Fingers crossed that happens again.
What are you reading right now? Did it start out strong? Feel free to share in the comments, and also feel free to link up!
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*fingers crossed*
I hope for the best then
She did use second person a lot more in this book. I kept trying to figure out “who” is talking to Essun but no luck. I’d love to hear your thoughts when you finish.
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I think I saw this one on another blog.
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I didn’t read the quote since I haven’t read The Fifth Season yet – but I did recently read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and I absolutely loved it! I need to read more N.K. Jemisin ASAP!
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I haven’t read the first so didn’t read your pick this week. I will get to this series eventually!
Lynn 😀
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