The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - Dark and Brilliant

[@matthewbackhouse6309]

The quality/enjoyment I get from your videos is honestly 2nd to none on booktube, keep up the great work

[@michaelaporee260]

Hard agree

[@trackeroc]

I absolutely loved this series! Thank you for covering it. I'm not sure I agree that the third book was weaker, but I'll admit I get completely washed away by the climax of the story. I've seen so many "climactic clash between the most powerful" plots play out and the way Jemisin turned that trope on its head was masterful. Perfect. Achingly beautiful. Exactly what the story needed. I very much agree with you about author diversity though - I've spent so much time in fantasy worlds built by Gaiman, Jordan, and Martin. I had no idea how much I would get out of Jemisin's work here - so much I want to find in fantasy stories but also so much more. There's a frankness, an unflinching honesty about certain details / parts of life that I had no idea I was missing.

[@jakubmesaros2092]

read it like 5 years ago in it's entirety in just two weeks and to this day, it's one of the most beautiful pieces of literature I've come across. 100% recommending

[@kirsireima5758]

N. K. Jemisin rose very quickly to my top tier of authors when I found her a few years ago and by now I've read almost all of her works. The Broken Earth trilogy is great but I have a soft spot for The Inheritance trilogy, since that's the series that introduced me to her. I'm so excited, whenever Jemisin gets the spotlight she deserves!

[@justbreathe857]

I started the audiobook this morning, just finished the prologue, went on KZbin to check for any trigger warnings I should be aware of. Thank you for posting this video!!! The prose is gorgeous, I can tell this is going to be one of my favourite books of the year.

[@stinabringsarve5787]

When I was working in a bookstore I used to recommend this series all the time! I really love both the mystery-aspects and the characters! It’s such an interesting and unique story! I can’t wait until you cover the City of Brass trilogy! Great video as always!❤

[@cronkthebookguy]

I agree with everything here! And yes, can't wait to do city of brass. Maybe in December??? Schedules a bit nuts, bit hopefully soon.

[@groofay]

You are an excellent salesman. I've been meaning to get to Broken Earth for ages, and now I'm figuring I'll get to start it in January. I hadn't heard that Jemisin is a psychologist, that honestly makes me look forward to it even more. I'm a sucker for good post-apocalyptic character work.

[@lobsterhats9219]

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making your videos. I work overnight at a pretty soul sucking job; and your videos drop right in the middle of my Thursday night and give me something to genuinely look forward to and get excited about 🙂

[@cronkthebookguy]

Awww!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! Good luck at the soul sucking job. I've been there and it's tough. Take care of yourself, my friend. ❤

[@satyambarakoti4312]

You have me convinced to keep reading. I was about to give up after 250 pages. A fellow nine-nine here!

[@AlyeaAnnn]

I’m going to add this to my “Watch Later” list. My book club and I read The Fifth Season and a couple of us will continue the trilogy outside of club.

[@erinn-nicole]

It really does feel like she pre-planned the whole thing. I'm starting book 3 today! I was so happy that book 2 was not a let down/slump that usually happens in trilogies. I love the mystery of not knowing what's going on. I've never read anything like this trilogy.

[@cronkthebookguy]

Awesome! You're gonna love book 3!

[@elenajimenez2294]

Seeing your videos is making my "to read" list grow more and more. This trilogy sounds fantastic! I love your channel and I am so glad I found it. 😊

[@ameliab9391]

I love the intro so much hahaha. Also your videos are extremely helpful when deciding if I'll read something or not. Great content.

[@ayalee6115]

I've been watching your videos for a while now and I absolutely love them you convinced me to start both the Mistborn and the Witcher series and now this one too i love how you present the books without spoiling anything but still saying enough for us the viewers to know whether the book is for us or not Much love and i wish you even more success with this channel

[@bunniewood]

The intro is everything! Never change ya legend

[@javierferia3444]

Damn you! Now I have to read that trilogy asap! Great video, wonderful explanation, thanks a lot for an awesome content.

[@KaosityReign]

I've read this trilogy several times already and after watching your review, I want to start it up again. It's just that good! Jemisin really has a way of making you care about the characters and there's such depth and mystery that leaves you up in the late hours of the night, because you need to keep reading, LOL. I agree that it's a dark trilogy and emotionally impactful. The darker themes are beautifully written and well thought out. You can see the parallels in our own life and in a way makes you look inward, even if it's subconsciously. At least that's how I felt while reading it. I think my favorite part about this trilogy is that interweaving plot lines, and you hit the nail on the head that at the end they fit together like a missing puzzle piece. I think Jemisin was brilliant in writing from Damaya's point of view, because I felt like I was learning about this complex and traumatic world right along side her so the book truly felt like a journey and really made me invested in story. Great book and great review!

[@weregretohio7728]

I have read the first one at least and appreciate what it does differently compared to the usual fare. An entirely different perspective with a unique world and character work. Looking forward to The Expanse, guess I ought to start that soon.

[@brunobaerlepups6269]

Thank you! I just read the first book and got addicted right away! Its interesting, exciting and clever and I really enjoyed the writing style. Looking forward to book 2 + 3 whcih I will read on my vacation starting tomorrow

[@CemetryGates89]

I'm so glad you joined BookTube

[@TheCatholicSamurai]

Excellent series! I have watched two of your videos now (the first was on Amber) and your intros are legendary! Edit: P.S. Your hair is amazing!

[@cronkthebookguy]

Thank you! The entire youtube channel is an elaborate scheme to get hair compliments. 😉

[@TheCatholicSamurai]

@@cronkthebookguy That is too funny! Keep up the great reviews, blessings!

[@AshleyRebecca]

Moving this series up on my TBR! Thanks for the info as always!

[@DutchGreyBeard]

Thanks again for a very nice and informative video. Just started reading Fifth Season yesterday. Already loving the writing style (2nd person narrative included). I most probably will categorize myself as a lover of The Broken Earth.

[@2ZH]

I do really appreciate the videos you make! Thank you, even more so with trigger warning stuff, I feel like not enough booktubers talk about it.

[@PhoenixSuki]

Definitely going to give this one a try. It sounds brilliant.

[@FerSanchezArt]

I just have two words: thank you !!! And now as I have adhd, let me tell why hahah I discovered this author and then her series of books and learned each of them won best book of the year. And the writer is a person of color who’s the first one who received those awards three times in a row or something like that. I might be mixing a few things because I’m so excited about the video. But now you gave me that final push to buy them. I’d love to have a physical copy but in Argentina is kind of impossible to buy because a book might value the same as a month worth of food. So digital will be. Again, thank you for this video!!

[@cronkthebookguy]

Gracias mi amiga! All the nicest people have adhd, I swear. 😍 Thank you so much! Yes N.K Jemisin has achieved something incredible and more people should know about her work. And hey, digital copies are good too. Whatever option helps you read is the best option!

[@FerSanchezArt]

@@cronkthebookguy thanks so much for your kind words ☺️ and yes, I love to read so if I cannot buy a physical copy at least I save for the e books. I try to support the writer as much as I can. Now I'm currently reading the first book of A song of ice and fire, loving it and Throne of Glass from Sarah j Maas (physical copy of both) And I feel it so small compared to George Martin's writing hehe but it's an entertaining young adult book that sometimes you need just to chill and relax a bit.

[@kimiko2150]

Yes I love this series and do not see it often talked about in my little sphere

[@PolishGirlReads]

My favourite series of all time 🤩🤩

[@mjbuffa28]

Dude, your videos are awesome 😂 excited to read these!

[@gigi_mona]

I liked your short summary of similarities and differences between SF and fantasy. Now I'm interested to see the long version.

[@cronkthebookguy]

That is legit a good idea! 😊

[@dorothynguyencavell9084]

I've seen the difference described as: in Sci-Fi the weapons go "pew pew", and in Fantasy they go "cling clang" 😂

[@WhiningMoon]

Omg love this video 🌻 I’ve been wanting to read this one and you’ve given me more reasons to 😊 thank you for these amazing videos!

[@kikipongo371]

Great work! realy gives me an idea whether i want to read the books covered, or not.

[@lorimariebee]

I am 30% through Leviathan Wakes. I am kinda mad I am just now reading the series because it is so good! SO GOOD! I had no idea I would love it so much. As I normally read fantasy I wasn't sure if SciFi would be for me. I am so glad I tried it out. Can't wait for your video on the series!

[@BooksRebound]

😂 Oh gurl you ain't seen shit yet. Leviathan Wakes is BY FAR the weakest book in the series. The books just get better and better and better. I personally think the best books are 4, 9, 8, 7, and 3. I highly recommend the show too. One of the rare successful SFF adaptations. The show is incredible and you will fall in love with Shoreh Agdashloo, the older Iranian woman who plays Avasarala (basically "Queen" of Earth lol). She's such a great actress, and her VOICE. HER VOICE IS SO GOOD. Idk if you've watched Arcane but she voices that older cop woman in the first few episodes. That's another show worth checking out. It's a successful fantasy adaptations and the animation style is incredible, not to mention the insane characterization and killer soundtrack.

[@lorimariebee]

@@BooksRebound glad to hear the series only gets better. Easier to justify buying all the series 😄 I plan to watch the show but I don't want to spoil anything for myself yet. I started Arcane but will need to get back into it. So many awesome works to consume!

[@BooksRebound]

@@lorimariebee Hope you enjoy the rest of the books! It really is some of the best SciFi of the 21st century. I'd say the only competition The Expanse has is Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time books. Children of Time is incredible and feels so original and imaginative. A nano virus is created that basically allows memories/skills to be encoded and shared biologically, effectively speeding up evolution. There's this plan to terraform planets and perform The Exultation of Beasts by releasing this virus into monkeys and monitoring their evolution, only a terrorist attack happens, the monkeys die and the virus gets released into the insect population on the planet below. The story follows successive generations of increasingly intelligent spiders and it's sooo fucking cool. Then there's a human plot too about human refugees fleeing earth in search of a new planet centuries later and stumbling on this spider planet and it becomes a first contact story. It's well worth reading. I'd say it's the best individual SF book of the last 20yrs (better than any single Expanse book), but I think Expanse as a SERIES beats out Children of Time. You can watch/read Expanse at the same time, especially cause the show sadly ends on book 6. I personally watched the first 2 seasons, then read books 3-5. Then around when book 6 to came out I went back and read 1-6. I don't think watching the show hinders any enjoyment of the books at all. Also, I feel you, cause Arcane took me about 2-3 tries to get past episode 2, but then once I did I was hooked. The first act is first-acting, but when you get into it the show really takes off from there.

[@Avid_Reader]

The Expanse is by far my favorite Sci Fi series. Looking forward to the video.

[@dorothynguyencavell9084]

I loved this series! The first was a book club pick at our library, otherwise I might have never read it. Less than an hour after I finished book 1 I had books 2&3 ordered 😅

[@RichardGardnerUK]

I honestly have found this book series (still first book) a little confusing. Initially I thought it was a medieval world, but then they talk about metal pipes (plumbing) and it confused me, later on they talk about modern day drugs to deal with illness and my brain felt blind sided. Did anyone else struggle to place the world in their mind from the writing? I'm wondering if I need to start this book series again to properly plant myself as everyone loves it, especially the world building. I feel like I must have messed up and missed something.

[@BooksRebound]

By far one of my fav series. I think my top 3 fantasy series are Malazan, Broken Earth and Baru. Speaking of which, can you read/talk about The Traitor/Monster/Tyrant Baru Cormorant books? Seth Dickinson deserves sooo much more recognition. I think his technical ability and his deep themes and character work is on par with Erikson, they're just stylistically different. Baru Cormorant is by far one of the best antihero stories I've ever read and it's wild this man hasn't won a Hugo award yet, especially considering Hugo winner Arkady Martine won for her book A Memory Called Empire which (no shade, I love the book) is literally just like stole everything from The Traitor Baru Cormorant and rewrote it as a SciFi story. Reading them back to back the similarities are uncanny. If you like one you'll like the other. It'd be nice to see more booktubers talking about Baru. I've raved about the series on my channel but it doesn't have that many views.

[@2ZH]

Also I'm sure not this month, but a series I would be interested in seeing you do is the cradle books!

[@cronkthebookguy]

I'm interested too! I've read the first 6 books and hope to get back to it soon.

[@2ZH]

@@cronkthebookguy awesome! I can't wait! I have the 1st book but haven't picked it up yet =)

[@renatosouza9261]

This one just became my favorite video from your channel. You just reviewed one of the best I ever read. There mano other Black Womans writers on the field. Have you read Octavia Butler?

[@enricomennella4018]

Have you read the Red Rising series? And if yes, what do you think about it?

[@cronkthebookguy]

I'm reading the final book now. And I'm ending sci-fi September with a Red Rising video! Its incredible!

[@firstthecoffeethenthething7514]

What would you recommend someone read first, The Poppy War or The Broken Earth Trilogy?

[@laurendenae5045]

Welp got halfway through the video and already bought it. 😂 Thank you!

[@cronkthebookguy]

AMAZING! Haha I'm so happy! Enjoy!

[@MattBramer]

whoa.. 3:13 in and I AM READING THIS SERIES NOW!

[@actaeondiomedes4270]

Hey! While you’re doing Sci-Fi September, please do the Sprawl Trilogy- Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive! I’ve only read the first and was going to read all three after I’m done with The Witcher series

[@cronkthebookguy]

Thanks buddy. I have already picked my series for this month. But I will add The Sprawl Trilogy to my reading list! Thank you. ❤

[@actaeondiomedes4270]

@@cronkthebookguy Thanks for responding! BTW, you’ve been reading some of my favorites- Witcher, Dark Tower, Dune (that one I haven’t read yet but the 2021 movie is 👌🏽). Your analysis of the Witcher especially was really good, I don’t see many others discussing the real themes and literary depth that runs through the series. I’m definitely gonna keep your future recommendations on my list.

[@timothyphoenix1081]

Pretty sure its pronounced "oh- roh-jeen" (rhymes with gene and clean) 🙂 Love your review videos by the way, very indepth, thank you!

[@Avid_Reader]

I have the box set of the trilogy atop my bookshelf, but have yet to read it. I find it interesting that you found book 3 to be the weakest, as its the only one of the three to also win a Nebula award. I'll have to read them and decide for myself. Thank you for another great video!

[@cronkthebookguy]

Haha I'm the same! I've got one book on my to-read shelf that's been there 3 years. It taunts me every day. Yeah sometimes awards get giving late. I think its a watchmojo list, about actors who got the award for one film but earned it for a previous. Like Leonardo Dicaprio won his for the revenant, but earned it in wolf of wall street. Stone Sky definitely deserved the nebula award for the sum of the parts of the trilogy.

[@Avid_Reader]

@@cronkthebookguy Today I finished Fractal Noise, and am starting To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Paolini. I'm looking forward to meeting him at Dragonsteel in November.

[@mugiwaranoavi4776]

If you want try different books.I want to recommend my countries book "Misir Ali".Its not any high class fantasy its sort of a collection of short novels.But its really good.I would really love it if you review it in your channel.

[@ceIinea]

While I really enjoyed this video, the little clips in between are very distracting

[@diegoescalante2876]

I read (and loved) all three books, but… are you telling me I’ve been pronouncing orogenes wrong in my head the whole time??

[@cronkthebookguy]

Don't worry, so was I when I read the books. Had to learn how to say it for the video and was very embarrassed. 😁

[@myself2noone]

Ehh, the theams were too transparent, and simplistic. And the "big twist" was shocking only because i didn't know it was supposed to be a twist. Everything else was... fine.

[@psikeyhackr6914]

I finished the first book and got half way thru the second. Now I understand why someone called it "misery porn". LOL

[@cronkthebookguy]

Oh my god...I've never heard that term before, but YES it applies here! 🤣