lindsay3rwin 's review for:

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

5.0

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I really enjoyed this book, which I found at random after a friend talked about the series. It's set on a world with 3 suns, in a setting a bit like ancient Rome. The protagonist, a girl named Mia has a privileged start in life but it all falls apart when she sees her father hanged for treason, and her mother and brother imprisoned and killed. There are supernatural elements and characters involved with Mia, who develops skills in manipulating darkness. She elects to train as an assassin with an academy of assassins called the Red Church, and the story develops a bit like Hogwarts with more explicit violence and sex. Her initial class of 30 is winnowed by death in training as well as murder. There are well developed plot and relationship shifts which keep the interest going, and the reader feels increasingly on Mia's team as she works her way through her training. There are footnotes throughout, which to me are entertaining, expanding the narrative and world background. Going to read Godsgrave next then wait for Darkdawn.