Sophia Rose Reviews: The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence Narrated by Helen Duff Book #1 The Book of the Ice

Today Sophia Rose is back and is reviewing the Penguin Random House audio edition of The Girl and the Stars by a favorite fantasy author of mine, Mark Lawrence. This is the first in his new The Book of the Ice series.
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The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence, narrated by Helen Duff

#1 The Book of the Ice

Fantasy

Publisher:  Penguin Audio

Published:  5.5.20

ASIN:  B087QPVLHY

Time:  18 hours 21 minutes

Rating: 4

Narrator Rating: 5

Format: MP3

Source:  Penguin Random House Audio

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GoodReads Blurb:

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.

 

Review - Showcase - Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence is book two in the Book of the Ancestor trilogy about warrior nuns in a dying world. Those who know me know I love the dark prose, anti-heroes and imaginative worlds that Mark creates, he's a force to be reckoned with in this genre and I have been devouring his work since his first novel, Prince of Thorns released in 2011. If you're a fan of the genre and haven't tried him you're missing out.
My review courtesy RT Book Reviews is below.
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ISBN-13:  978101988886
Publisher: Penguin/Ace
Release Date: 4-3-2018
Length: 432pp
Source: Publisher for Editorial Review
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Overview:

The second novel in a brilliant fantasy series from the international bestselling author of Prince of Thorns.

Behind its walls, the Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls to hone their skills for centuries. In Mystic Class, Novice Nona Grey has begun to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the convent, Nona must choose which order to dedicate herself to–and whether her path will lead to a life of prayer and service or one of the blade and the fist.

All that stands between her and these choices are the pride of a thwarted assassin, the designs of a would-be empress wielding the Inquisition like a knife, and the vengeance of the empire’s richest lord.

As the world narrows around her, and her enemies attack her through the system she is sworn to, Nona must find her own path despite the competing pulls of friendship, revenge, ambition, and loyalty.

And in all this only one thing is certain: there will be blood.

**GIVEAWAY** Interview with Mark Lawrence - Red Sister - Review

I'm super excited to be bringing you an interview with an extraordinary talent in Epic Fantasy, he's a science nerd by day and an amazing hard fantasy storyteller by night and I've been devouring his fiction since his first novel. I'm pleased to have had the opportunity to interview the über-talented, Internationally Bestselling author Mark Lawrence.
Mark's publisher Penguin Random House has graciously sponsored a #Giveaway for one hardback copy US ONLY.
Contest details below.
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ISBN-13: 9781101988855
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Release Date: 04-04-2017
Length: 480pp
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Overview:
The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen’s War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors...

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls.

A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass’s care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family—and new enemies. 

Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona’s secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself.

Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.

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Red Sister
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