I'm the author of The Broken Empire, The Red Queen's War, & Book of the Ancestor trilogies - spare ideas land here.
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Tuesday, 20 April 2021
The Girl And The Mountain is out in the US!
I've said it on all my social media and on my newsletter - but I should mention it here too.
The Girl & the Mountain is absolutely addictive, brilliant, fascinating & it has just as many fantastically terrifying moments as book 1. I couldn't put it down & I will definitely be reading it a second time immediately.
I was so intrigued in book 1 when Erris quoted "Oxymandias" by Shelley, which is just the perfect poem to allude to in the ruin of the city, and so obviously Erris had to at least at one point from Earth. But I couldn't figure out if that meant that Abeth was Earth way, way in the future or if Erris' people had migrated to a foreign planet. This has been one of the driving mysteries of Abeth for me since The Book of the Ancestor trilogy. I feel now that I am a bit closer to my understanding, but I know it's still an incomplete picture which I have at this time. I am assuming that this probably isn't something that you want to talk about & give away yet, is it?
Regardless, thank you so much for these books. They are the sort of book I live for--that rare & wonderful sort that has such a powerful life force of its own that one is almost absolutely certain that Abeth really must exist in some dimension or another.
The Girl & the Mountain is absolutely addictive, brilliant, fascinating & it has just as many fantastically terrifying moments as book 1. I couldn't put it down & I will definitely be reading it a second time immediately.
ReplyDeleteI was so intrigued in book 1 when Erris quoted "Oxymandias" by Shelley, which is just the perfect poem to allude to in the ruin of the city, and so obviously Erris had to at least at one point from Earth. But I couldn't figure out if that meant that Abeth was Earth way, way in the future or if Erris' people had migrated to a foreign planet. This has been one of the driving mysteries of Abeth for me since The Book of the Ancestor trilogy. I feel now that I am a bit closer to my understanding, but I know it's still an incomplete picture which I have at this time. I am assuming that this probably isn't something that you want to talk about & give away yet, is it?
Regardless, thank you so much for these books. They are the sort of book I live for--that rare & wonderful sort that has such a powerful life force of its own that one is almost absolutely certain that Abeth really must exist in some dimension or another.
Thank you so much for another amazing book! I really appreciate that it's not just a story, but also a puzzle for those who want to go digging.
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