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The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth, Book 2

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The Obelisk Gate

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Book two in the record-breaking triple Hugo Award-winning trilogy.

The season of endings grows darker, as civilisation fades into the long cold night.

Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request only Essun can grant.

The Broken Earth trilogy begins with The Fifth Season, continues in The Obelisk Gate and concludes with The Stone Sky - out now.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 N. K. Jemisin (P)2016 Hachette Audio UK Fantasy Fiction

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I am loving this story. I'm looking forward to starting book 3. I had No idea I even liked this genre. It has opened my eyes. I strongly recommend. The narrator on audible is excellent too.

Very good

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This series is so good. It’s easy to listen to and simultaneously a very interesting story

Couldn’t stop listening

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I'm very much enjoying the Broken Earth series of books, looking forward to the next one.

Keeps getting better!!

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Fantastic fantasy and a superbly expert narration. Can’t wait to listen to the final instalment!

Wonderful

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The middle section of this book is below the quality of the first, yes, and it suffers pacing issues throughout. But the last third more than makes up for it. It's an emotional gutpunch, with tight plotting and fantastic characters.

And Robin Miles just brings everything to life perfectly. She's one of the first narrators where I've gone to seek out other books she's narrated, just so I can keep listening to her.

Robin Miles is incredible

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...and that's both the book and the performance. Beautiful, musical, hypnotic, compelling. A wonderful experience.

Cannot recommend highly enough...

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I thoroughly enjoyed the 2nd part of this trilogy and look forward to the next one.
I like how the narration works, and the storytelling by Robin Miles was very engaging.

Interesting world

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absolutely loved this series and will return to it for rest of my life i expect, to reread over and over

world building

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Seriously, if you are looking for the crack cocaine of speculative sci-fi/fantasy, this is it. The author is the queen of tantalising her listener/reader with titbits of information before jerking away on another tangent, such that it's half an hour later when you realise the Very Important Question hadn't been answered. Devious. I CANNOT wait for book 3.

I Can't Even

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There is not much more I can say about The Obelisk Gate that I have not already said about The Fifth Season.

Worthy of all the awards bestowed upon it.

Excellent

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