The third book of N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, "The Stone Sky" completes the story told in "The Fifth Season" and "The Obelisk Gate" and is the fourteenth book I've read this year.The first two books of the trilogy won Hugo awards for best novel. The third book was as good, if not better, than the first two. Having said this, I'm not sure why it won the awards. It's not a bad set of books but, frankly, there is nothing special about the story or the storytelling. It's a perfectly good fantasy trilogy but, in my opinion, it belongs in the middle of the pack, not the top.
The story follows our main character and her daughter as they head towards their inevitable conflict. The journey is brief and almost throw away. The conflict at the end is a bit anticlimactic.
I gave this book, and hence the trilogy, four stars out of five on Goodreads not because it was good but because it's not bad. It was entertaining enough to be okay and there was nothing in the books that put me off. It's good filler when you don't have anything else to read.
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