# The Killing Moon >[!info]- metadata >*`= this.tags`* >- Online Rating - `=this.onlineRating` | My Rating- `=this.personalRating` >- Status - `=this.status` >- Progress - `=this.currentPage` of `=this.pages`  ## Summary `=this.description` ## My Thoughts >[!quote]+ My Review >I wanted to like it. A lot of people I trust in these matters really like NK Jemisin. Maybe I should have started the Inheritance series instead? There's no denying the storytelling craft that Jemisin has, and it's a great bit of world-building. Beyond that, it all sort of falls flat for me. > >First, there is commentary throughout about the complexity of familial and romantic love that is, well just uncomfortable. None of this ever really resolves sufficiently for me to feel like we learned something, so instead it just seems unnecessarily provocative. > >Second, there's the odd magic system. I can tell from the writing and from the glossary that this was a Sanderson-esque attempt to build something very mechanically interesting, and it's clear from the arc of the story that the religion/magic is an important device. But in execution everything feels a little ham-fisted. Is it good, bad, ambiguous or amoral? Nobody really seems to know. All we know is that some people (written as zealots) like it, and some people (written as worldly progressives) don't—not exactly breaking new ground. > >All-in-all, I found myself entertained and ambivalent, pretty much in equal parts. It was a quick read, and I enjoy a lot of Jemisin's craft, I'm just not sure this series is for me.