The Girl and the Stars
By Mark Lawrence
- Release Date: 2020-04-21
- Genre: Epic Fantasy
Description
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.
Reviews
Disappointed
2By Dave in the NatiSadly lacking the power of the author’s other works. I had high hopes that the negative reviews I’d seen were exaggerated, but soon found I was having a hard time wanting to finish this book.Eh
2By KaviveleI loved the Ancestor series. I absolutely will 100% recommend those to anyone who’ll listen. So when I finished the series I was thrilled to see that there was another series set in the same world by the same brilliant author. But this series is weak. There was so much care put into creating whole characters in the ancestor series, but many of the characters in this spin off fall flat. The ancestor series had characters you think about and miss after the books are over, characters die in this series and I just don’t really care. Rather than deepening the world he’d created, it feels like the author just used a fantastic ready made world as a crutch for a weak story.Another great one from Lawrence
5By Gsh922He writes the best opening lines of any modern day author, and then things go crazy from there. This new series is set in the world of the Red Sister trilogy, although we are far away from the equator here. The book follows the lives of those on the ice. And it is a typical riveting read as you would expect from Mark Lawrence!Thrilling new series
5By T-weaveA fantastic start to a new series by Mark Lawrence!Ok at best.
2By Safetyman the secondLoved his other books. Not his best work. Think he phoned this one in.Let Down
2By bbsfreshIn this books description it advertises as being set in the same world as Red Sister which is part of the wonderful Ancestor series. I was expecting this story to be on par with the Ancestor books but was thoroughly letdown. I’m a fan of Mark Lawrence but this story was dull and painful to read throughSo. So. Good.
5By Joshua OrtonI don’t even know what I can say about this book. It was amazing in every facet, expanding the world of Abeth in wonderfully exciting ways, and I can’t wait for more.A very enjoyable read
4By Jack_Straw64Excellent world building and some great plot twists.