Be prepared for graphic everything: language, sex and violence. And it delivers on all that and then some. So, what else do you need to know? Firstly, we are warned in the prologue that this book is going to be unflinching, uncompromising and unsentimental. In fact, it’s “stay-awake-past-2-in-the-morning-willing-your-eyes-to-stay-open-so-you-can-finish” good.

I’ve been quite surprised by how Nevernight appears to be dividing readers into clear “hate it/DNF’d it” vs. The Red Church is no Hogwarts, but Mia is no ordinary student. She must prove herself against the deadliest of friends and enemies, and survive the tutelage of murderers, liars and demons at the heart of a murder cult. Six years later, the child raised in shadows takes her first steps towards keeping the promise she made on the day that she lost everything.īut the chance to strike against such powerful enemies will be fleeting, so if she is to have her revenge, Mia must become a weapon without equal. The blurb: Destined to destroy empires, Mia Covere is only ten years old when she is given her first lesson in death. Nevernight is published in the US today, August 9th, and in the UK on August 11th. Thank you to Harper Voyager and NetGalley for giving me an e-copy of this book in return for an honest review. 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.Uncompromising entertainment. 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. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic-the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. 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.

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.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life.

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