Päris kindlasti viimase aja suurim pettumus.
Käisin lugemise ajal kaksa korda veebis kontrollimas, et jah, see on ikka seesama Mark Lawrence, kes kirjutas Prince of Thorns sarja - on küll.
Absoluutselt ei sarnane eelmainitule. Ei pingelist sündmustikku, ega eneseiroonia tulevärki, ei külluslikku detailirohkust, mis kõik lõpus kenasti üheks effing üllatavaks rusikaks kokku surutakse, et anda sellega sulle kõikse magusam maksahaak, mida raamatult üldse tahta võib. Jah, detaile on, ja palju, aga liiga, asjad kuhjuvad, korduvad ja käivad ringiratast, tegevusliinid ei jõua kuhugi ja ja kuigi osa lõpuks justkui mingi lahendus selgub, eu tekita see mingit emotsiooni.
Tõenäoliselt ilmselt sellepärast, et tegelikult ei teki ühegi tegelasega erilist sidet. Pahad ikka kohe nõretavad pahadusest, head nõretavad headusest, ja kuigi kogu aeg toimub tohutu rapsimine ja midagi juhtub, käib see kõik kuidagi lakkamatult tuimalt ringiratast.
Ja mitte ühtki süžeekäiku, mille kõrvad juba kaugelt ära ei paistaks. Tahtmine teada saada, kuidas see kõik lõpeb, ületas täpselt kriipsuvõrra selle künnise, et pooleli ei jätnud. Aga kudias sinna jõutakse - see jättis paraku enamjaolt ükskõikseks.
Järgmine osa jääb minust paraku lugemata.
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While I found this book very entertaining and a fast-paced read, I felt the last 60 pages could have and probably should have been a whole separate book. Somewhere along the way, the pace picked up so fast that the lovely characters I started with got lost in the mix. It's not often a book has TOO much action for me, but that is the case in this book. I wanted a lot more of Yaz and company, and a much stronger sense of place than I was able to get in these pages. I will definitely be reading the next book in the series, hoping for all the things I felt were missing, and I would recommend giving this one a go, despite its setbacks. ( )

The continuation trilogy to be read after Book of the Ancestor series.

Now we leave the green belt around the equator and venture out to the tribes that live on the ice and what they do with the children they deem too weak to be of any future use to the tribe.

If you enjoyed Book of the Ancestor then i reckon you'll enjoy this too.

Next up in the trilogy is The Girl and the Mountain, which i've plunged straight into cause i'm enjoying it all soooo much. ( )

Dear Mr Lawrence,

That ending!
I am dead.

Kind regards
Claude

You know when you pick up a book by this remarkable author you will read dramatic writing that can contain both spare and lyrical prose. The world-building will blow your mind with its rich complexity, and it is inevitable you will fall in love with characters that are both fierce and fragile. All these elements were in The Girl and the Stars. However there were also some pacing issues in this book. It was chaotic one moment then very flat the next. Obviously it can’t be hectic the whole time, however the lulls were very...well...‘lullish’. Other than that I am all in and excited for what will be another amazing journey! ( )

At the half-way point I was pretty optimistic about this, but unfortunately this ended up being a disappointment. Still a four stars, but only barely.

I liked the world-building and I really enjoy the way Lawrence writes fantasy (namely the lack of the ye olden days language). The premise was also very intriguing, and it was nice to go back to the world of one of my favorite fantasy series. It just didn't pull through.

First off, there wasn't enough ground work to make me invested in the characters, of whom there were a plenty. Second, I really disliked the main character's inclination to view all of age male characters as potential love interests, especially considering she spent most of the book at the brink of sudden and violent death. Another thing I disliked was the pacing, which was good in the beginning, but got all over the place in the second half. The ups and downs were so frequent that nothing came as a surprise, because you knew shit was going to be going down and nothing would go right no matter how things seemed. I also didn't understand half of the main characters choices or motivations for that matter, and mostly I would have been a lot more interested in a story from Erris's point of view (and history).

Over all the book was just way too rushed. I feel like Lawrence is trying to pack a longer series into a trilogy and the whole thing suffers for it. Considering what a great female lead Nona was, Yaz just seems like your typical "badass YA heroine" that doesn't feel at all real.

I'm obviously going to read the sequel, but I'll definitely be anticipating it a lot less than this one. ( )