Title: Nevernight
Author: Jay Kristoff
Series: The Nevernight Chronicle #1
Genre: Fantasy/Adult
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date: August 9th, 2016
Edition: Kindle Edition, 448 pages
Source: Library
Synopsis:
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.
Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. 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. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.
Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. 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. 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.
Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?
Review:
So, this book is really dark. Very good, I would have finished it quicker, but I kept needing to take breaks.
This book was full of fantastic characters, an amazing plot, and a very interesting world.
Mia, our "heroine", seeks revenge for her family. You find out in the first chapter what happened to her father and that they tried to kill her after arresting her mother and infant brother, but you don't find out their fates until much later in the book. She has a ruthlessness to her, but she doesn't seem willing to hurt people she believes are innocent. Something the Red Church doesn't much care about. I think it adds complexity to her character that had it not been there would make her bland and a stereotype. Her shadow-cat demon, who found her when she was very young after losing her family adorably named Mister Kindly, is also a really great character. I like his sassy attitude, but I suspect there is something more sinister about his character and what he wants in the long run from Mia as he has moments of jealousy.
The array of character, half novice assassins, half the "teachers" or Shahiid as they are called. Most of the novices go unnamed until they die during the various trials to becoming members of the church.
There was a secondary murder mystery plot, some of the novices who died where murdered. And while I have noticed that many people seemed to figure out who it was early in the book, I must admit that I had no idea and it came as a shock to me. I suspected just before the reveal after the person who I thought the murderer was does something that makes me think otherwise.
The array of character, half novice assassins, half the "teachers" or Shahiid as they are called. Most of the novices go unnamed until they die during the various trials to becoming members of the church.
There was a secondary murder mystery plot, some of the novices who died where murdered. And while I have noticed that many people seemed to figure out who it was early in the book, I must admit that I had no idea and it came as a shock to me. I suspected just before the reveal after the person who I thought the murderer was does something that makes me think otherwise.
There is one death, that was kind of ambiguous, and I am trying really hard to not look up spoilers, I am on a waitlist for the second book at my library, and I am anxious to find out if they are still alive or not.
As I said, this book is very dark. There is a lot of swearing, obviously a lot of death, torture, violence, and a fair amount of sex. If any of these things bother you, maybe skip this book. It's very well written, but it is not for everybody.
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