Book of Ice #1
The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice #1) by Mark Lawrence
I enjoyed this addition to Lawrence's world of Abeth, although at this stage I'm in the waiting room wondering what the future holds.
The main character Yaz perpetuates the trope of the misfit, or rather as Katy Rose Poole described it in a Tor.com e-newsletter article (Sept. 9, 2019), the 'Chosen One' trope. Yaz is torn from the social group she desperately tries to meld with, into a new place where her differences will become strengths.
Yaz's people exist in a harsh landscape. Conformity is key to survival. Those who are different are given to the Pit of the Missing. Survival in this world of ice is measured and penultimate. Children are assessed and if seen as a danger to the group they are cast out. Yaz's differences are not easily identifiable. To her horror the Pit becomes her destiny. Here she discovers that rather than ending, her journey is just beginning.
In the place she enters she learns truths about herself and her people. That mathematical constructs of survival can tell a different story, when applying an interpretation from a different perspective, challenging the immutable norm.
So yes, this is a promising beginning to a new series by Lawrence that I will be keeping my eyes on.
A Berkley ARC via NetGalley
****
I enjoyed this addition to Lawrence's world of Abeth, although at this stage I'm in the waiting room wondering what the future holds.
The main character Yaz perpetuates the trope of the misfit, or rather as Katy Rose Poole described it in a Tor.com e-newsletter article (Sept. 9, 2019), the 'Chosen One' trope. Yaz is torn from the social group she desperately tries to meld with, into a new place where her differences will become strengths.
Yaz's people exist in a harsh landscape. Conformity is key to survival. Those who are different are given to the Pit of the Missing. Survival in this world of ice is measured and penultimate. Children are assessed and if seen as a danger to the group they are cast out. Yaz's differences are not easily identifiable. To her horror the Pit becomes her destiny. Here she discovers that rather than ending, her journey is just beginning.
In the place she enters she learns truths about herself and her people. That mathematical constructs of survival can tell a different story, when applying an interpretation from a different perspective, challenging the immutable norm.
So yes, this is a promising beginning to a new series by Lawrence that I will be keeping my eyes on.
A Berkley ARC via NetGalley
****
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