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The Girl and the Stars
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Emma
Jun 20, 2020 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy, ya
This book was absorbing for the first 40% and then its interest for me kind of waned. I wasn’t convinced by Yaz as a hero, most importantly. This book is on the young side of YA fiction and I’m clearly not the target audience! I couldn’t give it less than 3 stars though, because the world building and setting were phenomenal and the story was a good one.
Keri (BooksWithKeri)
Jun 20, 2020 rated it really liked it
This book was received in return for a honest review via NetGalley.

The Girl and the Stars follows Yaz of the Ithca, a girl who unusual control of star-stone. All the tribes come together for a ageing ceremony. If you pass, you are officially considered an adult but if you found wanting, you are thrown into the Pit, a giant ice cavern that stretches far beyond the imagination. When Yaz’s little brother Zeen is thrown in, she makes a split decision.

She jumps in after him.

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