A review by shirecrow
The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence

2.5

She'd left the north but it hadn't left her. The ice and the wind wouldn't ever leave her, not even if she took sail across the black sea until Abeth itself was just another star hanging in the void behind her.

I'm gonna be honest, non of this made sense to me.

By the time they time travelled for the 80th time I have already mentally checked out. Why did they have to open the Ark twice? I don't know. Why would Theus come back to save them? No clue. What even happened at the end? I DON'T FUCKING KNOW.

Seus destroyed? Just like that?

But what really has me dead is that Yaz has been yearning (worst part) for the same two boys for three books and chooses the one that has been GONE for almost two entire books?? I hated Quell. I still hate him. Is Yaz with him because she loves him or because she has to breed with him to create the super smash ultimate Ictha? Thurin and Quinna? Don't get it at all but okay. MALI AND ERRIS?? Have they even talked before???? Interacted beyond that heist that put them on hold for literal months??? What the hell, sure.

This review is not good at all but I'm genuinely flabbergasted about how horrible this conclusion is. 

If Lawrence had focused more on the actual characters instead of the breeding maybe this would've been good. Sadly, every strong moment got destroyed by his need to remind us "btw... Yaz has two boys waiting for her lol" okay and idgaf.

This is why the book of the ancestor trilogy is so much better. No romance till book three and wlw endgame.

Also love how the nuns and sweet mercy just didn't matter at all at some point. Like okay y'all just chilled and (somewhat) trained there for months but it's whatever let's just get tf outta here yeah absolutely no problem... I'm so mad.

Also love how the ending isn't satisfying at all. Quinna and Thurin fuck off, thank god I couldn't take their sudden-out-of-nowhere romance any longer. Erris dies without hearing any last words from Yaz. What happened to Mali? She just... went back or... how long did she stay... Apparently nothing is really important because let's just end the book after 500 pages of absolute waffling on about everything and literally nothing.

Never make me read this again, goodbye forever 😭