A wonderful fantasy dystopia. Jemisin drops you into the world she has created and teaches you its rules as the story progresses. Heartbreaking and wonderful The Fifth Season explores our world in a parallel future ‘fifth seasons’ shake the world to its core causing near-extinction level events. Powerful individuals can control and manipulate the earth, but looked down on by society, due to fear and disgust, they are controlled by the government, unable to steer their own life’s course…