The Girl and the Mountain, Mark Lawrence
The Girl and the Mountain, Mark Lawrence
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The Girl and the Mountain

Author: Mark Lawrence

Narrator: Helen Duff

Unabridged: 16 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/13/2021

Synopsis

The second novel in the thrilling and epic new fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.

On the planet Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock.

For generations the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their mountain to steer the fate of the ice tribes. With their Hidden God, their magic and their iron, the priests’ rule has never been questioned. But when ice triber Yaz challenged their authority, she was torn away from the only life she had ever known, and forced to find a new path for herself.

Yaz has lost her friends and found her enemies. She has a mountain to climb, and even if she can break the Hidden God’s power, her dream of a green world lies impossibly far to the south, across a vast emptiness of ice. Before the journey can even start, she has to find out what happened to the ones she loves and save those that can be saved.

Abeth holds its secrets close, but the stars shine brighter for Yaz and she means to unlock the truth.

About The Author

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

Goodreads review by John on August 31, 2024

The Girl and the Mountain is next-level icepunk fantasy. Everything is starting to come together in The Girl and the Mountain through a brilliant combination of fantasy, sci-fi, and Greek mythology, as Mark Lawrence continues to defy the dreaded sophomore slump. My favorite part is the convergence of......more

Goodreads review by Books with Brittany on June 17, 2021

4.25⭐️ Man I love this freaking world so much. There’s just a few things that don’t make sense to me- not sure if they’re conveniences, plot holes, or just lack of understanding on my part. That cliffhanger though….......more

Goodreads review by James on June 11, 2021

I received a review copy of The Girl and the Mountain from the author in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Mark Lawrence and Ace Books. The Girl and the Mountain continues the action after the enormous cliffhanger that ended The Girl and the Stars. What could possibly occur next has often......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 13, 2021

I originally gave this five stars after the immediate post-book glow, but after sitting on it for a while, I'm bumping it down to four. The reading experience alone is fun and exciting and certainly a page turner, but I don't think it works quite as well as a book on its own. There is a big shift in......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 22, 2021

This is not only a solid continuation of the first book, but a full-on expansion to the dark fantasy/SF mix that we had begun with. The ice planet was, after all, a colony world. What we didn't have much on was how or why. We also didn't have anything on how long or why it became so dystopian. Fortu......more

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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

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