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.
Worldbuilding had a lot of promise and it's the only thing that made me hang in there (also why it got 2 stars, 1.5 of them is for the possibility of that world). It took me 5 months to finish this book... several times I was a breath away from DNF... The story could have been great, but I just could not connect to any of the characters. And after a while I felt it kept dragging and twisting this way and that and just going around in circles, with stuff just piling up with nothing to show for the plot or the story progress. The last few pages made me scream out loud "oh cooome on, give me a break!", it was just too much... action and tension and oh no! and plot twisty twists, my poor suspension of disbelief was completely blown to pieces and there was no way for me to get back into the story. Not for me this one, very disappointing.
