The Girl and the Stars

#1 Book of the Ice

Mark Lawrence

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ACE BOOKS
23 February 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Adventure; Fantasy; Epic Fantasy; Dark Fantasy / Grimdark; Questing & Adventure

Series: The Book of the Ice

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.

By: Mark Lawrence
Imprint: ACE BOOKS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 169mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781984806017
ISBN 10: 1984806017
Series: The Book of the Ice
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 23 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Lawrence was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to British parents but moved to the UK at the age of one. After earning a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College London, he went back to the US to work on a variety of research projects, including the Star Wars missile-defense program. Since returning to the UK, he has worked mainly on image processing and decision/reasoning theory. He never had any ambition to be a writer, so he was very surprised when a half-hearted attempt to find an agent turned into a global publishing deal overnight. His first trilogy, The Broken Empire, has been universally acclaimed as a groundbreaking work of fantasy, and both Emperor of Thorns and The Liar's Key have won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel. Mark is married, with four children, and lives in Bristol.

Reviews for The Girl and the Stars (#1 Book of the Ice)

Praise for the Book of the Ancestor trilogy Fabulous, in-depth world building, great characters, and as always with Lawrence, plotting that is fresh and unpredictable...If you like fresh, take-no-prisoners fantasy, this is for you.--Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Maze Dark, passionate, tense, with a female hero anyone could relate to--I was utterly fascinated! This is no pretty, flowery tale, but one of vastly different people struggling to survive when a hostile government comes to power. --Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tempests and Slaughter Mark Lawrence has evolved into a master of his craft. In Red Sister he has produced a novel that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, and as poignant as it is ferocious. Highly recommended. --Anthony Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Wolf's Call Lawrence's suspenseful account of Nona's efforts to complete her training and gain control over her powers balances action and introspection, and will keep readers hooked. --Publishers Weekly The series is truly a masterwork of speculative fiction writing the likes of which is rarely achieved.--Grimdark Magazine