I went into this book a little iffy about things. There are so many good reviews you can read on books before the bad starts showing up once you start reading, but this has been a beautiful (and kind of hostile) journey of a book.
I purchased it maybe a week or two after its release, and I wasn’t disappointed. I’m glad I (somehow) found the book early on.
After reading so many Young Adult novels and realizing how keen amateur writers are on releasing unpolished works, The Girl and the Stars is a breath of fresh air.
Fresh, cold air.
Now, this is the first book I’ve read from Mark Lawrence, and while I absolutely love the style he goes for in his writing–it’s rather to the point with a poetic touch–sometimes the paragraphs were long-winded. I had to take breaks from reading.
That’s really my one main gripe about the read.
His world-building is very good–I’d say it’s hard to write about people who live in the arctic cold, as there’s not much for them to do, nor to really build on. But heck, Mark does the Ictha proud.
