The Girl and the Mountain
core novel 2021 Book of the Ancestor / Book of the Ice
Record
| First published | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.13 (7,161 ratings, collected 2026-10-08) |
| Page count | 432 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780008284800 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Yaz and her companions have escaped the caverns of the Broken, but only into the hands of the priests of the Black Rock, the mountain that rises through the ice above the Pit, who keep the regulator's secrets and the Missing's children for purposes of their own. Confronting the priests costs the group dearly, and what they learn there sends them out onto the open ice on the longest journey any of them has made: the trek across the frozen world toward the Corridor, the narrow band of green around Abeth's equator that the tribes know only as a myth. The second book carries Yaz off the ice at last, and in its final chapters her story reaches the Convent of Sweet Mercy and intersects directly, for the first time, with the Book of the Ancestor.
Where it sits
- Universe: Book of the Ancestor / Book of the Ice
- Series: Book of the Ice core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mark Lawrence
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.
- Reading order, within the series Book of the Ice: position 2 of 3: previous The Girl and the Stars (2020) · next The Girl and the Moon (2022)
Sources
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