The Girl and the Stars

De: Mark Lawrence

Narrado por: Helen Duff

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.

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Praise for The Girl and the Stars

“Mark Lawrence has produced more than a dozen novels in a decade, and The Girl and the Stars is one of the best… not only a thrilling fight for survival…but a revelatory coming of age story.”–The Guardian

“A crackling good adventure with a rich mythological background. Yaz, like Nona in the Ancestor series, is strong, vulnerable, and an excellent anchor for this new series.”--Booklist

“Exceptional, haunting, and claustrophobic...An incredible and emotionaladventure.”—Grimdark Magazine

"Wondrous and chilling...Readers looking for an utterly fresh fantasy world would do well to give this one a try."–Bookpage

Can be long at times, but enjoyable story.

I found this book to be a bit of a struggle, says between listen. But I enjoy the world Abeth. It a good story, and it was enjoyable.

Amazing Narrator

This book was awesome and the narrator did a great job with all the voices. I hope she does the next book.

Read the physical books

Coming here after the Book of the Ancestor trilogy it's great fun to explore the world and lore from a completely different angle.

The narration makes it very hard to follow, however. The words are low and hard to hear now and then, but the killer blow is how difficult it is to tell the characters apart from each other, from the non-dialogue text, and sometimes, from themselves. The main character changes accent and intonation several times, and once even within the same chapter. It really scrambles the character up. At one point a male character, who speaks with male voice acting, drops the gender acting part half way through the conversation, and for a while the story carries on as if the protagonist is speaking the lines, confusingly, until I figure out from context again it isn't who I think it is that's speaking. This just goes to show how difficult it really is to voice audiobooks with many characters, while keeping them separate enough via only voice, for us listeners to follow the story with ease and immersion .

Read the physical books. The cover art is nice, and there may even be pretty maps on the inside.

Loved it

The story is wonderful and the narrator is beyond wonderful. I am also very happy with the author as his writing is amazing.

Read the Grey Sisters First

I enjoyed the book but I think it's because I was already familiar with the author's other series which takes place in the same world. The narrator was decent. There were some inconsistency over time with the various characters but overall I enjoyed the reading. If you aren't familiar with the Grey Sisters series then you probably won't enjoy this book. If you have read/heard the other series and liked them give this one a chance.