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A review by cleo_reads
Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
3.5
I wanted to like this more than I did. It seems like the sort of YA SFF I'd like - misfit girl taken in and raised by warrior nuns in a convent / magical boarding school - but I had trouble connecting to the story and it was just too violent for me. I also remembered why I stopped reading chosen one / magical school type stories - I often have trouble suspending disbelief enough to go along with the action. Plus the pedagogy is usually awful.
This book does subvert some of the usual Chosen One tropes and I found that interesting. I also found the world building interesting.
This book does subvert some of the usual Chosen One tropes and I found that interesting. I also found the world building interesting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment
It starts out as a typical high fantasy but I have a feeling that in the rest of the trilogy, it will be revealed to be SF in the style of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series or Sharon Shinn's Samaria series.