H.i Cara,
Mark Lawrence is an author whose books I’ve wanted to read for a while. As he is starting a new series I thought it was a good time to start reading his books. The series is question is called the Book of Ice, and the first book is The Girls and the Stars. The Girls and the Stars is published on 30th April 2020.
In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown.
On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone.
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 is torn 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 she learns to challenge the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always governed her people.
Only when it’s darkest you can see the stars.
(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)
Mark Lawrence has created a brutal world in The Girl and the Stars from the first page you could feel the danger.
Yaz is the leading in The Girl and the Stars, she knows that she is different from her people. She goes through a journey of self-discovery that made me like her more. Yaz is fierce and loyal, who is willing to go to any length for her brother and friends.
The world that Mark Lawrence has created is multi-layered, there is a lot more going on than you originally thought. Even by the end of the book, the revelation was still being sprung. It did make me interested to read the next book as I am left with questions, and a need to find out what happens next.
The Girl and the Stars is beautifully written, there are parts of the writing that were so vivid made me feel claustrophobic in parts. My only issue of The Girl and the Stars is that they have a couple of different storyline and lots of character that I had to double-check what I had read to make sure I hadn’t missed anything. As in the most dramatic and action-packed scenes so much happens it’s easy to miss things and have to go back and re-read to make sense of what had happened.
My Favourite aspects of The Girls and the Stars;
- The Magic Abilities
- Battle of Good vs Evil
- A different take on the end of the world.
- Plot twists
- Friendships / budding romance
- Great fight scenes.
My least favourite aspects of The Girl and the Stars;
- Multiply plot affecting the same characters.
My best advice is to take your time and saver this story so you don’t miss anything.
My rating for The Girl and the Stars is 3.8 out of 5.
Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Voyager for suppling me a E-book copy of The Girl and the Stars for a fair and honest review.
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