York The Map of Stars, Laura Ruby
York The Map of Stars, Laura Ruby
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York: The Map of Stars

Author: Laura Ruby

Series: York #3

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2020


Synopsis

The thrilling conclusion to two-time National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby’s epic adventure through the streets of an alternate New York City. It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher—and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea what the photo they found in Greenwood Cemetery means, but Jaime is convinced that they do, and that they’ve been keeping their own secrets from him. As the city continues to break around them, suddenly solving the greatest mystery of the modern world seems less important than saving their own friendship. The stakes of completing the cipher, however, have never been higher. Darnell Slant, real estate developer and owner of all the Morningstarr buildings, knows that they hold one last secret: a power that even the Morningstarrs themselves never revealed. The world has rested on a precarious balance of power for generations; now Slant and his shadowy business partners aim to unbalance it. It’s up to Tess, Theo, and Jaime to uncover the Morningstarrs’ final mystery in a desperate attempt to set things right. The world—theirs, and possibly others—depends on it.

About Laura Ruby

Laura Ruby is the Michael L. Printz Award–winning author of many books for adults, teens, and children, including Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All and Bone Gap, both National Book Award finalists; the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection York: The Shadow Cipher and its sequels; the Edgar Award nominee Lily’s Ghosts; and the Book Sense Pick Good Girls. She is on the faculty of Hamline University’s MFA in writing for children and young adults program and lives in the Chicago area. You can visit her online at lauraruby.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amita on December 29, 2024

re-read review 2024: ok so if i make a lot of logical assumptions i think i can pretty much figure out everything that's going on in the ending EXCEPT for the epilogue like WHAT is going on there???? (view spoiler)[how is jaime's mom related to ava??? is ava supposed to be in all times at once?? i thought maybe jai (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Corey on May 24, 2020

I was disappointed. Heavy spoilers to follow. DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO STAY SPOILER FREE. I teach middle school and found book 1 on our shelf. Read it and recommended it to a ton of my students. Surprised to find book 2 so soon after. Devoured it and was excited to see where things would lead.......more

Goodreads review by christine ✩ on May 14, 2022

5/14/22: sometimes a book is both cheesy and heartbreaking. I am going to be honest I came to reread this to try and make sense of something I've never made sense of it (oh cool I just realized it's been exactly 2 years since I first read this) but I left even more confused than before. I am incredib......more

Goodreads review by Skip on October 26, 2020

3.5 stars, rounded up. I liked this trilogy, especially the middle book, but like many other readers I was confused by the ending. There are a lot of moving plots and skipping forward and back through time, which was not sufficiently explained. That said, it was still fun and imaginative. Her charac......more