I don't think we're going to find a better review of The Fifth Season anywhere.

So articulate, so powerful. We talk about how we need books like The Fifth Season but we also need people like you to talk about them and spread the word. Great video. Also, loving the lil Garnet in the background :D

Oh my word, Adriana, this is one of the most powerful reviews I've ever read or watched in my entire life. Thank you so much for making this, thank you. You have such a gift and I'm not sure what the world did to deserve your voice on KZfaq, but I'm so thankful for it.

Great review. I just finished the book today and loved it. You have done it justice in your video!

Best review I've seen on this book. Glad I ordered it.

Amazing review!!! Thank you! I just started reading it and now I can’t wait to finish the series!

Adriana!!! DAMN.DAMN.DAMN. This review is fucking powerful and you are, as always, wonderful beyond words.

Passionate review! Thank you so much for your words. Definitely gonna check this book out soon ~

I subscribed the moment you said "systematic oppression." I've never heard of The a Fifth Season but this review was so beautifully done I now have to read it!! Great job!!

Thank you so much for this rec!!! I typically don't read sci-do but your articulate and eloquent reviews are so compelling! Thank you so much and keep up the great work! New subscriber.

I love your videos! You have such an intelligent and truly analytical interpretation of all of the books you read. Even though I haven't read most of these books, just watching your channel is like food for my brain. Thank you!!!

Poc totally get these fantastic books, because its all real life for millions. Great review!

About the „complicating everything“ part: I think it‘s incredible how on the one hand systemic, colonialist and imperialist opression is front and center, no whitewashing, fullstop. And at the same time this is a world in which people who are marginalized and opressed in our world (meaning People of Color and queer People) just exist without a question, without being othered as such. It‘s normalizing of who should be seen as normal but often isn‘t yet in our world. Focusing on opression seems like the opposite of seeing opressed people without being questioned. But it works extremely well together without one „side“ diminishing the other.

Oh my, I really enjoyed your take on this! You're so thoughtful, and well spoken too. I loved everything about this!!!

Thank you for such a powerful review and discussion of the themes in this book! It was such an intense experience to read it, and it's so helpful to have this discussion video to help solidify some of the thoughts and impressions it left. Truly insightful!

This is one of the best reviews for this book I've seen! Excellent job! The second book is even better. I'll be starting the third in a few days.

This is the ONLY review that has inspired me to pick this book up. NOW

AMAZING review, thanks Adriana!

Fantastic review and discussion. I knew I needed to read this book asap but, damn, now I *really* need to read it. I loved Jemisin's past books but I feel like this is going to be taking it to a whole new level. Also HELLOOOOO fellow sticky tabber. I love those things. Can always tell when a book has really made me think because it just becomes a forest of sticky tabs.

This was great commentary. I just finished the book. I really liked it. Thank you for perspective.

I read all three books in the past week and I just stumbled upon your review. You are amazing and I just subscribed to your channel. Thank you for doing this.

WOW WOW WOW. This was such an amazing review.

Amazing review! I found the story and characters really haunting and oh so painful. There were points in the book where I felt like the emotion was too intense for me to continue but then the author puts in so many, densely spaced little mysteries in the narrative that you just feel compelled to read on.

I had a really tough time getting into this book and your review is making me want to re-read. Well done :)

Just finished The Obelisk Gate and came to KZfaq looking for a video that discussed more than just the post-apocalyptic aspect of the book, thank you for so eloquently talking about the themes of oppression

This video is amazing. You are amazing

Amazing video ❤️

Why did this review make me tear up? I know this is a couple years old, but this is so powerful. I truly loved this 😭

"The horror of realizing you've accepted your own death before it even happens." These are some damn powerful words. Thank you for the best review of this book I've seen

WOW amazing! ALL of this does sound very familiar for me too as a queer Indigenous Person of the Global Majority.

Great review! This book is really awesome. Kisses from Brazil :)

This was a brilliant review, I've just finished the book a few minutes ago and after writing my review my second action was coming here to watch this. Loved what you had to say and completely agree with you. I think the way it talked about the idea that there's always going to be people that will have to live with the force fed thought that there are people above them holding all the power and that it was always that way and will always be that way was so well done and extremely important. I don't think I've ever read a book that explains systemic oppression so well and accurately. Definitely one of my new favourites ♥.

Thank you so so much!! 💕💕🌹💕

This review captured feelings I didn't even know I had about the book. Great work.

I picked up this book earlier this year, but I ended up returning it because I ran out of time. Definitely pushing it higher up on my TBR to read properly this time :)

Great review informative and helpful - just finished 5th season and reading the Obelisk Gate

Amazing review! You are so articulate about why this book is important, and the way you communicate your thoughts is honestly stunning, like you need to be a motivational speaker because I’ve never heard anyone speak so powerfully about such an important topic as you did here.

Thank you!!!

Great review, I came here after watching MercysBookishMusing's review. So I was relieved to hear an actually intelligent perspective.

Really good review.

Well done

You've officially sold me on this. I was nervous about starting Jemisin because I thought it might be dense, but between your review and Sam's, plus reading the first few pages in the Amazon preview that while a slow burn, it's not dense or obscure, it's just delightful.

What a wonderful review! For the reason you speak of (and many others) this has to be the best book I've read in a VERY long time!

Oh how I adore this book, I really should've reread it before the sequel as I found for the sequel I was a tiny bit lost now and then.

I wish there was a spoilers warning ⚠️ still I couldn’t stop watching your review because it’s so well done.

And another book i am going to put on my to-read list! I love how you talk about social injustice and topics that so many choose to ignore or dismiss. You always inspire me to go out there and do something, instead of surpressing all the problems and distract myself from them. I often feel very hopeless, so thank you ♡

Preach preacher!

"Every Dam Day!" *even with the audacity to believe otherwise*. I have been stirred by your remarkable presentation. N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season" is in my shopping cart. Her work is something I will share with my Social Justice Bookclub. Thank you, thank you. p.s. Happy New Subscriber 📚

You are a beacon. Insta-subscription! I loved this book too.

I adored The Fifth Season (and The Obelisk Gate), thank you for putting into words why. And so utterly eloquently, too. This video sure is a treat!!

If I wasn't convinced that I need to read this book before, I definitely am now. Very happy that a book dealing with something so important won the Hugo!

Still the best non-spoiler break down of this book on youtube ... hell on the internet!! Ari thank you 4 this. I picked this book up 2017 because of you 😊 ... and it slaps even harder now that George Floyd happened.

This review Is absolutely stunning! You covered so much here in a very short time. Yes, it is very similar to our world and hopefully more people will read it and recognize the embedded flaw in our own societies.

Thank you so much for your words. Having just discovered the existence of the author and this series of books, I've been deciding whether to invest my money and time. Now I know I will get off the fence… and it's your video that's spoken to me more than anything anyone else has said. I look forward to discovering this new world that sounds as though it will have many points of familiarity.

This might be the best review of a book I've ever seen on youtube.

This book really hits different because of the relevance and apt ness in terms of climate change that is going on currently. Thank you Adri for this amazing review!

Keep adding closed caption into your videos. I have come to your channel just because of closed caption that Youglish showed to me.