The broken earth series review6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() And finding reviews that are either asking that she not tell these stories, or that she somehow make them more palatable, infuriated me. Jemisin isn’t deciding to perpetrate these atrocities Jemisin is telling the story, in her way, of things that have actually happened. Because you can’t write a book about an entire people being hated and dehumanized without children being beaten to death. “Too much child abuse to be acceptable.” “the book is just too darkly misanthropic.” “Why did she have to have so much senseless violence?”īecause the book is about systemic oppression. The primary complaint people seemed to have was that the books were too dark. ![]() The reviews for The Broken Earth Series were different, though. You can skim what someone wrote and go “ugh, she just doesn’t get it,” and that can sometimes be fun. ![]() It’s kind of a vapid way to spend time, a way of feeling superior to people you disagree with without any of the actual risk of having to engage with them. So sometimes I go to Goodreads to make fun of one star reviews for books I like. ![]()
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