Few revelations to the story aside, there’s nothing interesting out of Essun’s POV this time for me, her character doesn’t develop much, she resides only in one location throughout the whole book, and admittedly I actually fell asleep reading her story and had to force myself reading through it.
Some of them are interesting for sure, but I was mindlessly bored reading her POV. Within the first 70% of the book, her story is heavily filled with tons of info dump fired off at rapid succession, and I know I’ll forget most of them within a week after reading. Told only from two main POV and one minor POV, Essun’s POV is where I had tons of problems with. It’s not a surprise, I knew right after finishing the first book that the second book won’t be as good, but I just didn’t expect it to be this much. For reasons I can’t mention to avoid spoilers, I’ll just say that the first book has the advantage of being fresh in every element Jemisin implemented and in my opinion, she failed to live up to it. To summarize my mixed feelings about this book, The Obelisk Gate is majorly inflicted with the infamous second book syndrome. I am severely disappointed with it and as usual, I will always be honest with my ratings and reviews regardless of the majority’s opinions, so here it is. Believe me when I say that I truly wish I could love this book the same way but I just can’t. It’s a work of a genius and I gave it 4.5 stars. At the time of posting this review, out of 12470 ratings, less than 200 readers rated this book below 3 stars, I am one of them. This is probably the most unpopular opinion I ever wrote so far. Sadly, it’s not a happy coincidence because I highly disagree with it. The Obelisk Gate just won the Hugo Award 2017 for Best Novel of the year category, and coincidentally, I finished reading the book on the same day the result of the award was announced.
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