Spoilers for the Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
July 2, 2018 10:48 AM   Subscribe

I'd like to know the Kindle location for where a certain very upsetting thing happens in The Fifth Season. Major spoiler inside.

I know that Syenite kills Carborundum. What's the Kindle location for the start of the first chapter after that? Or should I just start with the next book? Because I can take thoughts about it, and references to it, but I really don't want to read That Particular Thing/extended flashbacks/the build-up to it knowing what I do.

Like. It's the best book I've read all summer, and I am enthusiastically recommending it to literally everyone, and FUCK EVERYONE WHO LEFT IT A ONE STAR REVIEW ON THE AMAZON PAGE, but I have a little boy just about Carborundum's age. So. Uh.

Thanks!
posted by joyceanmachine to Media & Arts (3 answers total)
 
Best answer: So, the location for that exact page is 5237. If you stop reading at 5191 and just skip to the next chapter, you should be good. The only thing you'll miss is the reveal that the second-person speaking voice is Hoa.
posted by Ragged Richard at 11:32 AM on July 2, 2018 [2 favorites]


Best answer: What you're asking about happens at the end of Chapter 22.

I don't think it's as violent or visceral as some of the other horrors visited upon children throughout the trilogy (which I also think is phenomenal). Corundum/Coru dies off-stage in a scene with lots of violent action, so there isn't a specific page I'd point to to say, "cover your eyes." But if you skip from the moment Alabaster disappears in Chapter 22 to the start of Chapter 23 you'll safely skip it. IIRC there aren't other big flashbacks to it but, again, there's rough stuff with kids in subsequent books.
posted by miles per flower at 11:37 AM on July 2, 2018 [4 favorites]


Response by poster: Got it. Thanks, everyone!
posted by joyceanmachine at 3:02 PM on July 2, 2018


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