The Fifth Season
2015 • 421 pages

Ratings1,038

Average rating4.3

15

This was just awful:
- It uses a 3rd-first person narrative, where the main character narrates the story and refer to him/herself in the third person.
- The names of the characters were annoying, I couldn't bear the excessive repetition of Uche. All the other names of places did not connect with me as well.
- It starts with a prologue.
- The prologue wasn't interesting. It was uninformative, it didn't add any foreboding and the information it gave was related to world building. I rather see that as little as possible, and in the form of show don't tell.

“None of these places or people matter, by the way. I simply point them out for context.”



“When she turns to the man — slowly; stone eaters are slow aboveground, except when they aren't...


December 28, 2018