N. K. Jemisin is a one-of-a-kind writer whose worldbuilding is on another level. She knows how to transport you into a different time and place like no other. In the Fifth Season, she tells the tale of a world in which the earth is rising up against its people via a "fifth season," which can include volcanic eruptions, earthquakes greater than a level 10, hot spot eruptions, and so much more. And we get to experience this world at the brink of another fifth season via three different points of view: Damaya, a young girl who is being taken in to the Fulcrum to "manage" her powers; Syenite, who has spent most of her life being trained at the Fulcrum; and Essun, an older woman who is reeling from the fact that her husband killed her son just because he was an orogene, and the journey she goes on. It's a story of survival that, despite being sci-fi and dystopian, has so many parallels to today's world and the different ways people react when something huge and tragic is happening. I can't recommend N. K. Jemisin's writing enough.