Title: Book of the Ice
Author: Mark Lawrence
Series or standalone: series
Publication year: 2020
Genres: fiction, fantasy, science fiction, adventure
Blurb: In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Abeth, the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone. 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 is torn 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, that her weaknesses are another kind of strength...and to challenge the cruel arithmetic of survival that has always governed her people. Only when it's darkest can you see the stars.
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Day 15: Armadillo Victory
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Prompt 9: Who is the best book villain in your opinion? And why?
I honestly have no idea. It's been a while since I read a book that had a single clear villain.
I really found Seus, from the Book of the Ice trilogy by Mark Lawrence, to be an interesting one. An ancient mind of a city that has slowly lost touch with reality and now wants to essentially end the world, Seus is somehow both one step ahead and one step behind the protagonists. He can anticipate many of their actions and has an intimate understanding of the world that they don't, but he is unable to account for their humanity.
Another series (although it's yet to be completed) that the villain is quite interesting is the Burningblade & Silvereye series by Django Wexler. The real villain of the series is revealed near the end of the second book, and you discover that the previous 'enemy' (who'd already been proven to be quite gentle) truly are good. It's very well done, and the twist reveal has the feeling of a car crash in slow motion: you know something terrible is happening and there's nothing you can do to stop it. It's a series that I'm really keen for the continuation of next year.
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More medieval dyes for y'all!
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My first winter reads of the season.
These felt like upper YA books, with the main character being 16 and working with other teens.
The world building was very interesting, set on a world dominated by ice, with tech from a mostly forgotten civilization beneath the ice.
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one thing that's great about the song of ice and fire books is the way nobody ever knows what the fuck is going on. like somebody in a bar will be like "long live good king renly!" and somebody else will be like "oh he died. like a month ago. yeah lady catelyn stark stabbed him" and somebody else will be like "actually I heard he was stabbed by a shadow his brother fathered on a priestess" and a fourth person will be like "wait didn't renly literally just win the battle of king's landing last week" and then they're all like "well, whatever. long live good king whoever it is now. next round's on me"
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The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence | The Library Trilogy #1
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by @Mark__Lawrence is OUT NOW! #bookreview "heartily recommend." #TheLibraryTrilogy @HarperVoyagerUK
A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes.
The world has never even noticed them. That’s about to change.
Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one…
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bedtime story with my love !!
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Since Avatar The Last Airbender got remade in live action so it could be more like Game of Thrones, they should remake Game of Thrones in animation so it can be more like Avatar The Last Airbender.
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Arya Stark of Winterfell, Daughter of the north, Queen of Winter, The night wolf, The ghost of Harrenhal, Witch queen, Bloodwitch, Wolf witch, water dancer, The She-wolf, a bitch from the seventh hell.
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More natural dyes! I honestly love stuff like this so much.
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