Synopsis:
This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.
Review:
At long last, we are at the end of an extraordinary journey. Jemisin, yet again, has outdone her with The Stone Sky, bringing a spectacular ending to one of the best fantasy series of all time. And as usual, 'you realize belatedly,' what you don't know about Stillness is considerably more compared what you do know, even with two massive two books finished already. This was a mind blowing ending. "It's dawn when you decide to change the world." I started the last book only expecting action, assuming the author had covered pretty much everything about the backstory by now. But as it turns out, those seemingly irrelavent loopholes in the first two books still had some major roles to play here, right up to the very last chapter. Compared to first two books, the build-up in suspense towards the end is even more pronounced, reaching the climax only during the last couple of chapters to deliver an impactful ending. "The Earth forgets neither those who stabbed it in the back... nor those who put the knife in our hand." At this point of the series, it comes rarely as a surprise how good Jemisin's writing, world building, and character development is. It felt like she had thought out the entire sequence of events from first book to last even before start writing the first book. The congruence, continuation and consistency between the three books couldn't've been as good otherwise. But who knows... May be Jemisin is that good!
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