Enter a frozen tundra in every sense of the word in The Girl and the Stars, where a small community thrives by ridding themselves of the weakest links.
And Yaz believes she’s next on the to-be-missed list.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think it’d be so much cooler if they actually Sparta-kicked kids into the Pit of the Missing, instead of pushing them. Is that too much of a violent mix of Lord of the Flies and the Gone series?
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.
Is The Girl and the Stars worthy of me?
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 fro them to do, nor to really build on. But heck, Mark does the Ictha proud.
Where else can you buy The Girl and the Stars?
While The Girl and the Stars is the first book in a series, as of writing this post, the other portions are not available for your reading pleasure. I know. A huge bummer to have to wait for someone to actually write and publish the next books.
But if you’re looking for somewhere else to buy the book, then we’ve got some places lined up.
