The Girl and the Stars
Apr 2020 · The Book of the Ice Book 1 · Penguin
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A stunning new epic fantasy series following a young outcast who must fight with everything she has to survive, set in the same world as Red Sister.
In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz’s people call it the Pit of the Missing and now it is drawing her in as she has always known it would.
To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same.
Yaz’s difference tears her from the only life she’s ever known, away from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her days with, and has to carve out a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. A world full of difference and mystery and danger.
Yaz learns that Abeth is older and stranger than she had ever imagined. She learns that her weaknesses are another kind of strength and that the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always governed her people can be challenged.
In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. Yaz’s people call it the Pit of the Missing and now it is drawing her in as she has always known it would.
To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same.
Yaz’s difference tears her from the only life she’s ever known, away from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her days with, and has to carve out a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. A world full of difference and mystery and danger.
Yaz learns that Abeth is older and stranger than she had ever imagined. She learns that her weaknesses are another kind of strength and that the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always governed her people can be challenged.
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Jacob Benning
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January 18, 2024
I adore this author. The people (not characters) he writes in a world that seems like a typical fantasy novel until words like "nuclear fallout," "space travel" come up. Then the world is turned on its head, and you're trying to identify the world that the people have no clue what it is, but you do. Throw that on the real, true relatability of the protagonist just trying to climb a rope, then swearing as they stub their toe. I hope to see more of this author. If not, I'll read the four trilogies again, and love every moment!
Tim Farnum
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August 31, 2020
Once again, Mark Lawrence brings us compelling characters caught in the crushing dilemmas of their lives on the icy planet Abeth, a dying planet orbiting a dying sun. As our heroine Yaz comes to terms with finding her way in the new existence she has feared being consigned to for so long, she is faced with new realities and choices that will shape not just her life, but that of those around her. This is an immersive and engaging story that held me from start to finish. My only complaint is that I have to wait for the writing and publication of the second and third volumes.
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Michael Parmenter
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April 28, 2020
The ending was one you would expect from a novice writer's who got tired of it and dropped the end with no place for a continuation Novel and a lousy ending for a single book. Not sure I would ever read his material again..
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About the author
Mark Lawrence was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to British parents but moved to the UK at the age of one. After earning a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College London, he went back to the US to work on a variety of research projects, including the "Star Wars" missile-defense program. Since returning to the UK, he has worked mainly on image processing and decision/reasoning theory. He never had any ambition to be a writer, so he was very surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His first trilogy, The Broken Empire, has been universally acclaimed as a groundbreaking work of fantasy, and both Emperor of Thorns and The Liar's Key have won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel. Mark is married, with four children, and lives in Bristol.
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