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oleksandr 's review for:
Red Sister
by Mark Lawrence
This is my first book by the author, read as part of monthly reading of SciFi and Fantasy Book Club.
The book is the first volume of the expected four-volume series.
The novel follows the early years of Nona, a special girl, taken to a Church to become a Red Sister – a warrior she-monk. The world is more or less classical fantasy setting in term of technologies and power structures (i.e. masses of dirt-poor peasants, some emperors somewhere, ruthless gangs and not much better armies). The difference is the presence of near-mythical people with high-tech (or high-magic), whose artifacts keep the world from its inevitable end.
The book is quite good, but not great. After reading roughly a third I guessed it should get only three stars, because it looked like it will move to cliché story of schoolgirl group dynamics (you know, a protagonist and the old group leader, which usually ends up with the protagonist either becoming a new leader or getting to know the old leader who is not that bad after all). However, then where were a few quite unexpected twists, which notably improved my ratings.
A solidly written fantasy for fantasy lovers.
The book is the first volume of the expected four-volume series.
The novel follows the early years of Nona, a special girl, taken to a Church to become a Red Sister – a warrior she-monk. The world is more or less classical fantasy setting in term of technologies and power structures (i.e. masses of dirt-poor peasants, some emperors somewhere, ruthless gangs and not much better armies). The difference is the presence of near-mythical people with high-tech (or high-magic), whose artifacts keep the world from its inevitable end.
The book is quite good, but not great. After reading roughly a third I guessed it should get only three stars, because it looked like it will move to cliché story of schoolgirl group dynamics (you know, a protagonist and the old group leader, which usually ends up with the protagonist either becoming a new leader or getting to know the old leader who is not that bad after all). However, then where were a few quite unexpected twists, which notably improved my ratings.
A solidly written fantasy for fantasy lovers.