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Andi and Lise dig into multiple Hugo-winner N.K. Jemisin\u2019s amazing and multi-layered The Fifth Season (2015), the first in The Broken Earth trilogy. Andi and Lise talk about Jemisin\u2019s use of point-of-view for different characters, how their stories interweave with the world-building, and the world-building itself, which they found utterly engrossing and brilliantly presented.

Synopsis, from the site Deadline:
The Fifth Season is described as an epic drama set in a world where civilization-destroying earthquakes occur with deadly regularity. A small minority of inhabitants has the ability to quiet these earthquakes, but they also\u202fcan cause them. The series follows three women, each of whom possesses these special, Earth-controlling abilities: Damaya, a young girl training to serve the Empire; Syenite, an ambitious young woman ordered to breed with her bitter and frighteningly powerful mentor; and Essun, a mother searching for the husband who murdered her young son and kidnapped her daughter mere hours after a Season tore a fiery rift across the land.

Info about N.K. Jemisin\u2019s The Broken Earth trilogy
NPR: \u201c\u2019Fifth Season\u2018 Embraces The Scale And Complexity Of Fantasy\u201d
Deadline: \u201cN.K. Jemisin\u2019s \u2018The Fifth Season\u2019 Book to be Developed as TV Series at TNT\u201d
Info about N.K. Jemisin\u2019s The Broken Earth trilogy
GQ: \u201cN.K. Jemisin Is Trying to Keep the World from Ending\u201d

This week Andi geeked out about the CW\u2019s Nancy Drew, and the Eddie Flynn series of novels by Steve Cavanaugh. She had to do two because Lise has been too busy editing her new manuscript to geek out properly.