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Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff
Never flinch. Never fear. Never forget.
[a:Jay Kristoff|4735144|Jay Kristoff|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1310187120p2/4735144.jpg] has an amazing description for his book and it is quite true: "Assassins! Murder! Treachery! Smutty bits!"
You will either find yourself enjoying this book, or find it totally taxing.
I, however, fell in the happy middle. It did take me a month to finish this book for two reasons: one, [b:Empire of Storms|28260587|Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)|Sarah J. Maas|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1463107108s/28260587.jpg|25272004] came out, and two, I got impatient.
The beginning was creatively written enough to make me curious. I was reluctant to read another assassin-in-training story because Celaena Sardothien took a lot of space in my heart. But, Mia Corvere has enough of her spunk to get me intrigued, so I followed.
By the time she gets to the, urm, "academy", I was invested. It is richly written and each scene was very descriptive. I love an author who is generous with words.
Now, here comes the stuff I had problems with... supposedly, this is not a YA book. However, a 16-year-old protagonist is quite problematic as the story deals with mature themes (and I don't just mean the sex scenes). I just couldn't reconcile the two. Then, I found it mildly amusing that they actually had "class lessons" though they were quite deadly. Imagine Snape actually poisoning Neville and now Neville has to create the antidote successfully, or "fail". Plus, Mia's similarity to Arya (from Game of Thrones) just grated at me a little bit. Mia also had a list of names she repeats to herself to remind her why she was taking assassin lessons in the first place. Then, she is told that she has to forget who she was to be the ideal Blade.
I also stumbled quite a bit, trying to remember that a "day" in this book is referred to as a "turn", but I'm just nitpicking now.
The footnotes, I found amusing. It was nice to find some levity amidst the gore and the blood. The characters were fleshed out and Unexpected, but they were trained to be assassins. What did I expect?
Towards the end, it gained the momentum I needed and finishing the book was a great satisfaction. It is written that "this tale is but one of three. Birth and life and death." Nevernight was just Mia's birth, an introduction to her world and her journey.
I'm quite curious where it leads.
[a:Jay Kristoff|4735144|Jay Kristoff|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1310187120p2/4735144.jpg] has an amazing description for his book and it is quite true: "Assassins! Murder! Treachery! Smutty bits!"
You will either find yourself enjoying this book, or find it totally taxing.
I, however, fell in the happy middle. It did take me a month to finish this book for two reasons: one, [b:Empire of Storms|28260587|Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)|Sarah J. Maas|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1463107108s/28260587.jpg|25272004] came out, and two, I got impatient.
The beginning was creatively written enough to make me curious. I was reluctant to read another assassin-in-training story because Celaena Sardothien took a lot of space in my heart. But, Mia Corvere has enough of her spunk to get me intrigued, so I followed.
By the time she gets to the, urm, "academy", I was invested. It is richly written and each scene was very descriptive. I love an author who is generous with words.
Now, here comes the stuff I had problems with... supposedly, this is not a YA book. However, a 16-year-old protagonist is quite problematic as the story deals with mature themes (and I don't just mean the sex scenes). I just couldn't reconcile the two. Then, I found it mildly amusing that they actually had "class lessons" though they were quite deadly. Imagine Snape actually poisoning Neville and now Neville has to create the antidote successfully, or "fail". Plus, Mia's similarity to Arya (from Game of Thrones) just grated at me a little bit. Mia also had a list of names she repeats to herself to remind her why she was taking assassin lessons in the first place. Then, she is told that she has to forget who she was to be the ideal Blade.
Spoiler
Mia, indeed, had become The Girl with No Name in the end.I also stumbled quite a bit, trying to remember that a "day" in this book is referred to as a "turn", but I'm just nitpicking now.
The footnotes, I found amusing. It was nice to find some levity amidst the gore and the blood. The characters were fleshed out and
Spoiler
the villain in the end broke my heart.Towards the end, it gained the momentum I needed and finishing the book was a great satisfaction. It is written that "this tale is but one of three. Birth and life and death." Nevernight was just Mia's birth, an introduction to her world and her journey.
I'm quite curious where it leads.