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The Girl and the Moon

core novel 2022 Book of the Ancestor / Book of the Ice

Record

First published2022
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.23 (5,702 ratings, collected 2026-10-08)
Page count432
First-edition ISBN9780008284848
Internal chronology3

Synopsis

Yaz has crossed the ice and come to the green Corridor, to the Convent of Sweet Mercy and the nuns who trained Nona Grey, and the third book brings the two Abeth trilogies together: the dying sun, the moon that is a machine, the Missing whose cities lie under the ice and the four tribes' bloodlines all belong to one story, and its end is close. With her companions from the Broken and the ice, and with allies and enemies out of the Book of the Ancestor, Yaz must reach the heart of the world's ancient technology and decide what to do with the power to stop Abeth's long freezing. Chosen as the year's best fantasy by Grimdark Magazine, the novel reads, in its reviewers' words, as the conclusion of both trilogies.

Where it sits

Notes

  • From the series record (Book of the Ice): Mark Lawrence's second trilogy on Abeth, the dying ice-world of the Book of the Ancestor: Yaz of the ice tribes, thrown into the Pit of the Missing, and her journey across the ice to the green Corridor and the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where the two trilogies' stories meet.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

Sources

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