Genre: Adult Fantasy
The Nevernight Chronicles, Book 1
Description (taken from Jay Kristoff's website):
In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.
Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.
Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.
Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?
I can't do one of my normal reviews for this book. I've sat on writing this review for a couple of weeks now because I don't know how to start it. So maybe I start with this book took me quite a while to get into and finish however it was by far, my favorite book I've read this year.
It is set in a fantasy world with its own religion, its own gods, and its own mysticism. And the narrator will give you fun-filled facts throughout the story whenever he references something in this world. And Mia? She's your standard heroine who had a brutal childhood but is seeking revenge. Everything she does is to better position herself to kill the people who killed her father. But she has a heart. And in order to be an assassin, you must deaden the heart.
I loved this fantasy! And even though the plot was right in front of me, my mind was too busy enjoying the little tidbits and details along the way that I totally missed it. I need the next book in this series now. Just now.
Fan of fantasy? Read this one!
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