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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, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic--the Red Church. Treachery and trials await her with the Church's halls, and to fail is to die. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires. Revenge.… (more)
starts with a graphic and gross sex scene with a 16 year old girl - why did she need to be 16? The writing style is NOT for me - super overwritten and tries too hard to be funny. Massive info dumping in the story AND the foot notes of each chapter. We GET it’s a cat who’s not a cat - please stop repeating that fact. And I found it boring.
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, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic--the Red Church. Treachery and trials await her with the Church's halls, and to fail is to die. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires. Revenge.
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Jay Kristoff's the new kid on the block: move over George R. R. Martin! (passion4reading)
Power play, intrigue, revenge, an assassin school: epic fantasy. (passion4reading)
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starts with a graphic and gross sex scene with a 16 year old girl - why did she need to be 16?
The writing style is NOT for me - super overwritten and tries too hard to be funny. Massive info dumping in the story AND the foot notes of each chapter.
We GET it’s a cat who’s not a cat - please stop repeating that fact.
And I found it boring.