The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
Mark Lawrence
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.
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01.5*
The narrator: amazing, talented, perfect, unique ✅
The writing: beautiful, such good prose ✅
Thurin: the only character I felt even a smidge of emotion for ✅
The magic system: interesting and same as the book of the ancestor trilogy so I don't count it for this book
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The plot: simultaneously nonexistent yet convoluted ❌
The romance(s) : DEAD. No chemistry ❌
The characters: FLAT. I did not give one single fuck about any of them or anything that happened to them. I didn't even hate any of them I just felt nothing ❌
The main character: not like other girls, plain yet 3 guys like her???? Obsessed with finding her brother and no regard for anything else ❌
The... Villain(s) ? : boring, no real explanation for motivations ❌
The amount of times the word 'ictha' appeared in this book: countless ❌
It took me a whole month to read all of this and I absolutely hated the whole experience. I even sped it up to 2x for the last 5 hours (I usually listen at 1.4x).
This is my most disappointing read of the year and possibly my whole life. The Book of the Ancestor trilogy is one of my favourite series of all time and this is set in the same universe but it is absolutely nothing like those books. I'm so incredibly sad and angry at this book.
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