--- product_id: 45351129 title: "The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3)" price: "AED 83" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/45351129-the-stone-sky-the-broken-earth-3 store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3) **Price:** AED 83 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3) - **How much does it cost?** AED 83 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/45351129-the-stone-sky-the-broken-earth-3) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed. Review: Stunning Conclusion to The Broken Earth Trilogy - No one has ever won the Hugo Award for Best Novel three times in a row. Even the list of those who have won it twice consecutively is a very short one: Orson Scott Card (1986, 1987 and don't get me started on that man), Lois McMaster Bujold (1991, 1992) and N. K. Jemisin (2016, 2017). I wonder if 2018 will be the year we have a three-time consecutive winner. This book is as perfect a melding of science fiction and fantasy as I have ever read. The world it gives us is so alien and yet its conflicts and its characters are utterly timeless. It is the best book in the trilogy, and I believe the best fiction book I’ve read this year. I have waited a while to summarize my thoughts on the The Stone Sky, the conclusion of N.K. Jemisin's (who I just cannot stop thinking of as Nora because I want to call her by her name) simply stunning Broken Earth trilogy. It published just when I was returning from the Helsinki WorldCon, where she won her second Hugo for The Obelisk Gate. Things were hectic for me then, as my beloved cat was critically ill. So I put off starting the novel, in order to give it my full attention, and then once I did start the audiobook, narrated by the fabulous Robin Miles, I had to evacuate with my family due to Hurricane Irma. I had made it to almost 80% and more than a few friends kept asking (read: pestering me) if I was finished yet. One was ready to pull her hair out when I told her, after returning home after the hurricane, that I was restarting it, yes, listening to the audiobook again, from the beginning, so I would have no distraction. In truth, part of me didn't want to finish the book, because then… it would be finished. I knew that there was no way there was not going to be heartache at the end of this series. But most of all, the series would be at an end, and you know how it is- that special sadness when you finish a series you love. Once I did finish it, it took a while for me to even form words to put on a page. Because I was blown away. My head still spins from it. It has been many years since I have read a book that has impacted me emotionally as this book has. When we began the series, The Fifth Season gave us a narrow focus on Damaya/Syenite/Essun. In subsequent books, Jemisin has given us a progressively wider view of the horribly flawed (dystopian seems like a mild word) world that Essun lives in. Although the books have given us the wider angle, we still have great depth of field, both with characters, and Earth’s history. While much has been written about Jemisin's awe-inspiring world-building skills, what lingers with me is the depth of her characters. Their complexity, and their all too real emotions, seem almost as if she was giving us her therapeutic insights into people who, by the end of the series, whether stone eaters or orogenes or stills or guardians, have become very real to me. I felt like I knew them, I mourned them, I celebrated them. Her insights into motherhood and shattered childhood are particularly poignant. And the evil Earth? Perhaps the most misunderstood character of all. The Stone Sky manages to answer many questions, about the origins of orogenes, of stone eaters, of guardians and of Seasons. It gives us the perspective of the past 40,000 years through the eyes of Hoa, who becomes a POV character, giving us vital backstory about how we got to this horrible broken place. (We also get brief POV thoughts from Alabaster, btw.) We learn how the Earth got to be broken and most of all, why some things that are broken should just be discarded. But there was so much more to this book than all this. First of all, how often do we see a sci-fi/fantasy series where the main character is a middle-aged mother of three? How often do we see the protagonists trying to destroy their world rather than preserving it? How often do you have your two protagonists acting in direct opposition to one another yet remaining... protagonists? Can we possibly choose between Nassun and Essun, given what we know about them and about what they have suffered? Most of all, The Stone Sky gives us the backdrop of Earth’s history- its cycles of oppression, the enslavement of one race or another, the violence visited upon the planet, all proving time and time again that this Earth, these people, are so broken that it is almost impossible to envision fixing things without destroying everything and simply starting over (exactly Nassun’s take). Alabaster’s vision, of recapturing the Moon into the Earth's gravitational field to end the cycles of cataclysmic fifth seasons, seems at times like it could never possibly be enough to right what is wrong. Because what’s wrong is more than just geological and meteorological. The culture of abuse, enslavement are repeated again and again. And yet, removing fifth seasons could change the balance of those left living on the Earth, thereby possibly changing the Earth itself. As she says in her moving Afterward, “Where there is pain in this book, it is real pain; where there is anger, it is real anger; where there is love, it is real love. You’ve been taking this journey with me, and you’re always going to get the best of what I’ve got…” Nora wasn’t kidding. Review: I feel almost like I've read this before - This series was pretty excellent. I didn't really develop any expectations as to how it would all end, because as I read on, my anxiety actually started to grow. I knew there would be some sort of final showdown, and at that point I didn't know who I was rooting for. I loved every moment of that anxiety. The ending was actually more perfect than I could have envisioned, so I'm glad I just went along rather than spend my time over-thinking things. The only thing that mildly bothered me (mind you, while this earns the loss of a star, I will definitely re-read this series again and again), is that I feel that the story definitely draws parallels, sometimes heavily, with the Mistborn series. You have volcanic ash. You have a form of hemalurgy. You have Ruin. You have Min. You have a form of Allomancers that are all treated as criminals. You have humanity finding places to huddle (one with walls, I might add). You even have glass knives! However, there are enough differences to definitely say that this work hasn't been derivative. If further installments are written covering later developments, I might change my mind. I'll still buy and read them though. If you have read the original Mistborn trilogy, you will find a LOT of familiar themes / parallels. I deduct a star mainly because realizing these themes / parallels kept drawing me from that world (I'd be immersed, and then 'but wait, I've seen something like this before!' and my mind would go off on a tangent while I was still trying to be immersed). I mean, the fact that the series has won Hugo Awards is enough of an endorsement on its own, and once again, this is definitely a series I will be re-reading more than once. It has also gotten me interested in this author's other works, so there's that as well. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #37,797 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #115 in Dystopian Fiction (Books) #289 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books) #561 in Epic Fantasy (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 21,016 Reviews | ## Images ![The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/916klATi9zL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stunning Conclusion to The Broken Earth Trilogy *by M***E on December 18, 2017* No one has ever won the Hugo Award for Best Novel three times in a row. Even the list of those who have won it twice consecutively is a very short one: Orson Scott Card (1986, 1987 and don't get me started on that man), Lois McMaster Bujold (1991, 1992) and N. K. Jemisin (2016, 2017). I wonder if 2018 will be the year we have a three-time consecutive winner. This book is as perfect a melding of science fiction and fantasy as I have ever read. The world it gives us is so alien and yet its conflicts and its characters are utterly timeless. It is the best book in the trilogy, and I believe the best fiction book I’ve read this year. I have waited a while to summarize my thoughts on the The Stone Sky, the conclusion of N.K. Jemisin's (who I just cannot stop thinking of as Nora because I want to call her by her name) simply stunning Broken Earth trilogy. It published just when I was returning from the Helsinki WorldCon, where she won her second Hugo for The Obelisk Gate. Things were hectic for me then, as my beloved cat was critically ill. So I put off starting the novel, in order to give it my full attention, and then once I did start the audiobook, narrated by the fabulous Robin Miles, I had to evacuate with my family due to Hurricane Irma. I had made it to almost 80% and more than a few friends kept asking (read: pestering me) if I was finished yet. One was ready to pull her hair out when I told her, after returning home after the hurricane, that I was restarting it, yes, listening to the audiobook again, from the beginning, so I would have no distraction. In truth, part of me didn't want to finish the book, because then… it would be finished. I knew that there was no way there was not going to be heartache at the end of this series. But most of all, the series would be at an end, and you know how it is- that special sadness when you finish a series you love. Once I did finish it, it took a while for me to even form words to put on a page. Because I was blown away. My head still spins from it. It has been many years since I have read a book that has impacted me emotionally as this book has. When we began the series, The Fifth Season gave us a narrow focus on Damaya/Syenite/Essun. In subsequent books, Jemisin has given us a progressively wider view of the horribly flawed (dystopian seems like a mild word) world that Essun lives in. Although the books have given us the wider angle, we still have great depth of field, both with characters, and Earth’s history. While much has been written about Jemisin's awe-inspiring world-building skills, what lingers with me is the depth of her characters. Their complexity, and their all too real emotions, seem almost as if she was giving us her therapeutic insights into people who, by the end of the series, whether stone eaters or orogenes or stills or guardians, have become very real to me. I felt like I knew them, I mourned them, I celebrated them. Her insights into motherhood and shattered childhood are particularly poignant. And the evil Earth? Perhaps the most misunderstood character of all. The Stone Sky manages to answer many questions, about the origins of orogenes, of stone eaters, of guardians and of Seasons. It gives us the perspective of the past 40,000 years through the eyes of Hoa, who becomes a POV character, giving us vital backstory about how we got to this horrible broken place. (We also get brief POV thoughts from Alabaster, btw.) We learn how the Earth got to be broken and most of all, why some things that are broken should just be discarded. But there was so much more to this book than all this. First of all, how often do we see a sci-fi/fantasy series where the main character is a middle-aged mother of three? How often do we see the protagonists trying to destroy their world rather than preserving it? How often do you have your two protagonists acting in direct opposition to one another yet remaining... protagonists? Can we possibly choose between Nassun and Essun, given what we know about them and about what they have suffered? Most of all, The Stone Sky gives us the backdrop of Earth’s history- its cycles of oppression, the enslavement of one race or another, the violence visited upon the planet, all proving time and time again that this Earth, these people, are so broken that it is almost impossible to envision fixing things without destroying everything and simply starting over (exactly Nassun’s take). Alabaster’s vision, of recapturing the Moon into the Earth's gravitational field to end the cycles of cataclysmic fifth seasons, seems at times like it could never possibly be enough to right what is wrong. Because what’s wrong is more than just geological and meteorological. The culture of abuse, enslavement are repeated again and again. And yet, removing fifth seasons could change the balance of those left living on the Earth, thereby possibly changing the Earth itself. As she says in her moving Afterward, “Where there is pain in this book, it is real pain; where there is anger, it is real anger; where there is love, it is real love. You’ve been taking this journey with me, and you’re always going to get the best of what I’ve got…” Nora wasn’t kidding. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I feel almost like I've read this before *by V***M on November 7, 2025* This series was pretty excellent. I didn't really develop any expectations as to how it would all end, because as I read on, my anxiety actually started to grow. I knew there would be some sort of final showdown, and at that point I didn't know who I was rooting for. I loved every moment of that anxiety. The ending was actually more perfect than I could have envisioned, so I'm glad I just went along rather than spend my time over-thinking things. The only thing that mildly bothered me (mind you, while this earns the loss of a star, I will definitely re-read this series again and again), is that I feel that the story definitely draws parallels, sometimes heavily, with the Mistborn series. You have volcanic ash. You have a form of hemalurgy. You have Ruin. You have Min. You have a form of Allomancers that are all treated as criminals. You have humanity finding places to huddle (one with walls, I might add). You even have glass knives! However, there are enough differences to definitely say that this work hasn't been derivative. If further installments are written covering later developments, I might change my mind. I'll still buy and read them though. If you have read the original Mistborn trilogy, you will find a LOT of familiar themes / parallels. I deduct a star mainly because realizing these themes / parallels kept drawing me from that world (I'd be immersed, and then 'but wait, I've seen something like this before!' and my mind would go off on a tangent while I was still trying to be immersed). I mean, the fact that the series has won Hugo Awards is enough of an endorsement on its own, and once again, this is definitely a series I will be re-reading more than once. It has also gotten me interested in this author's other works, so there's that as well. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mixes the personal and the epic effortlessly, satisfying as fantasy AND as character-driven saga *by J***E on June 29, 2018* Fantasy series are notoriously hard to end. How do you do justice to whatever big, world-changing events you've been setting up, but also provide some sort of closure for your main characters? In other words, how do you balance the macro and the micro - a problem anywhere in fantasy, but one that goes double in the ending? And that was something I was even more worried about when it came to The Stone Sky, the final volume in N.K. Jemisin's incredible Broken Earth trilogy. Could Jemisin stick the landing on one of the best fantasy series I've read in years, if not ever? Did she ever. Part of what's made The Broken Earth such an effective series is the way it's never lost sight of the personal stakes in all of its saga. Yes, this is a story about a civilization wracked by terrible devastation - devastation that comes along regularly and horribly. Yes, it's a story of magic users - orogenes, in the parlance of the series - who can control the tremors of the planet, but can also wield that same magic as the most devastating weapon imaginable. And, yes, as becomes clearer and clearer during The Stone Sky, it's the story of how all of this happened - how humanity may have doomed itself. But for all of that - and make no mistake, Jemisin's overarching story is incredible - it's also always been the story of a mother who is worried about her daughter. It's the story of a social class that has been rejected for centuries, and who are starting to realize that there is no future for them unless they stand up and demand to be treated as human beings. It's the story of a young girl who's realizing the flaws in her parents, and her desire to fix all of the pain and suffering that she and others like her have suffered. It's the story of how we must sacrifice ourselves for the future, and more intimately, how parents must give and give until there's nothing left if they want to leave behind a future for their children. In other words, Jemisin mixes the macro and the micro seamlessly, allowing the two to comment on each other and reflect back and forth, linking the fate of the planet to the fate of this mother and daughter, each of whom is on their own path to wisdom and cataclysmic choices. But it's also a story about the communities they have built along the way, and the way our friendships can shape us and define us and change us - often for the better - and how trying to survive the world alone is so often a fool's errand. All of this sounds vague, I know. But the fact is, for all of the rich lore and the world-building and the twists and the science-fiction that sneaks in and the fantastical elements, what made me love The Stone Sky was that it had all of those elements, and still chose to focus on its characters first and foremost. And by the time The Stone Sky ends, every one of the million small choices Jemisin has made along the way become clearer and clearer, working towards the messages and themes of the books. Even the often-questioned decision to write in second-person, whose purpose started to become clear in the second novel, becomes crystal clear by the end of book three, leading to an unexpected emotional wallop. That the series can do all of that while also telling a story of the fate of the planet, a war against nature itself, generations of conflict, science-fiction plot threads, and the nature of magic - my cup runneth over. I loved this book, loved this series, and am excited that there's more Jemisin waiting for me to jump into. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/45351129-the-stone-sky-the-broken-earth-3](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/45351129-the-stone-sky-the-broken-earth-3) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-06-18*