The Girl and the Moon
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4.5 • 71 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Final novel in the chilling and epic new fantasy series from the bestselling and critically-acclaimed author of PRINCE OF THORNS and RED SISTER.
'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous' ROBIN HOBB
The green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction.
The Corridor abounds with plenty and unsuspected danger. To stand a chance against the eyeless priest, Eular, and the god-like city-mind, Seus, Yaz will need to learn fast and make new friends.
The Convent of Sweet Mercy, like the Corridor itself, is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz needs the nuns’ help – but first they want to execute her.
The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace. Everyone wants Yaz to be the key that will open the Ark – the one the wise have sought for generations. But sometimes wanting isn’t enough.
THE GIRL AND THE MOON is the third and final volume in The Book of Ice trilogy.
Reviews
‘An excellent writer’
#1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin
‘Mark Lawrence gets better with every book. It has a drive to it, a pulse, a gearshift that kicks higher and higher’
Fantasy Book Review
‘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’
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce
'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous'
#1 New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb
About the author
Mark Lawrence was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to British parents but moved to the UK at the age of one. He went back to the US after taking a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College to work on a variety of research projects including the ‘Star Wars’ missile defence programme. Returning to the UK, he has worked mainly on image processing and decision/reasoning theory. He says he never had any ambition to be a writer so 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 ground-breaking work of fantasy, and both The Liar’s Key and The Wheel of Osheim have won the Gemmell Legend award for best fantasy novel. Mark is married, with four children, and lives in Bristol.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lawrence continues to combine stunningly original worldbuilding and multifaceted characters in his third Book of Ice fantasy (after The Girl and the Mountain). The "ice-bound" world of Abeth has only a small habitable zone, the Corridor, at its equator, populated by the remote descendants of Earth, while the icy wilds surrounding it are weathered by tougher tribes. The title character, 16-year-old Yaz, has the blood of a vanished tribe, the Missing, which gives her the power to control the stars. A "wanderer from the ice," she has finally made it to the Corridor, only to be threatened with execution. Things don't ease up as Yaz learns more secrets about the Missing, which could impact the survival of all of Abeth. The prose, as always, is top-notch ("The green-landers merely had to stretch out an arm to take hold of the voice of some long-dead father's father's father, still strong and clear and perfectly preserved amid the marks left by the scratch of an inky feather"), and Lawrence resolves major plots while preserving the option of setting more stories in this complex, immersive world. With plenty of backstory to get readers up to speed, this will both satisfy devoted followers of the series and captivate newcomers.
Customer Reviews
Unsatisfying
This was deeply unsatisfactory as the end of a trilogy. It seems to serve as a prequel to the next trilogy. Too much fighting with very little substance learnt. The most lacklustre of romance- for all couples! Not excited for the next trilogy especially as it feels like this story is being dragged on
The Girl and The Moon
Firstly can I say that I think Mark Lawrence has real talent. Great world builder. Imaginative blend of primitive and technical. Characters that you like and hate and root for. However to get through six books in this series and get to the point where nothing changes on this world that you’re hoping that your protagonists struggle will fix is pretty disappointing. Unless you can take into account the magical appearance of Deus Ex Machina man appearing from the undersea Atlantis people who have generations ago given up the daily struggle to apply a band aid at the very end. So why did we battle through six books with two really interesting protagonists if their struggle was for nothing.