The Girl and the Stars, Mark Lawrence
The Girl and the Stars, Mark Lawrence
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The Girl and the Stars

Author: Mark Lawrence

Narrator: Helen Duff

Unabridged: 18 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/05/2020


Synopsis

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.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 22, 2020

I received an uncorrected proof copy of The Girl and the Stars. I would like to thank Mark Lawrence and Harper Voyager for the opportunity. This tale is set in the same world as The Book of the Ancestor, yet in a completely different environment. We follow Yaz, a sixteen-year-old member of the ice tr......more

Goodreads review by Petrik on September 21, 2020

I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: [URL not allowed] Review copy provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. Great world-building and prose, but I have mixed feelings on the book. First of all, The Girl and the Stars is blessed with gorgeous cover arts. T......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on January 24, 2021

My experience with this book summarized: “This is cool Can’t wait to know what happens next Wow interesting What... what’s happening... Hey why are you doing that! I’m so bored, do I still have many pages to read... Of course! Still tedious. Last page: ahaa, I wonder what next...” then the books ends. It s......more

Goodreads review by Emily on August 04, 2020

2 1/2 stars Unfortunately I was very disappointed.......more

Goodreads review by John on August 31, 2024

"It’s what you do with time that makes it matter. I’d rather spend a year making new memories than a thousand wandering around in the same old ones." The Girl and the Stars is the first volume of The Book of the Ice, which takes place in the same world of Abeth as The Book of the Ancestor. Abeth is a......more


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Praise for The Girl and the Stars

“Mark Lawrence has produced more than a dozen novels in a decade, and The Girl and the Stars is one of the best… not only a thrilling fight for survival…but a revelatory coming of age story.”–The Guardian

“A crackling good adventure with a rich mythological background. Yaz, like Nona in the Ancestor series, is strong, vulnerable, and an excellent anchor for this new series.”--Booklist

“Exceptional, haunting, and claustrophobic...An incredible and emotionaladventure.”—Grimdark Magazine

"Wondrous and chilling...Readers looking for an utterly fresh fantasy world would do well to give this one a try."–Bookpage