by Jay Kristoff
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 hid...
So many people in Bookstagram love this series. Me, not so much. I found it hard to slog thru the first 25 pages. The reading was tedious, so I checked out the audiobook thru the Libby app. Even at 1.25x the speed, it was still a slow mountain to climb. At 5 hours we were only at 103 pages. The page...
I recommend this read, Mia was a great character and the unnamed narrator was quite funny, the footnotes make this quite excellent.
4.5 stars I loved this book. I was unsure at the beginning, but I'm so glad I stuck it out. This book is 100% one of my favorites of 2016.NEED to get my mitts on book 2!!
Did Not Finish, stopped reading on page 52 though skimmed past that point as well.So I tried and just gave up. This book was tedious to the extreme. Nothing made sense and I am sorry, having to stop and read footnotes plastered throughout this book wrecked any kind of flow that author Kristoff was t...
If you're thumbing through reviews you will quickly notice there are a lot of ones and fives, and for once I completely understand why people are falling so far in one direction or the other. The language in this book is highly stylized. The metaphors and similes are abundant and florid, and the pro...
Book – Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1)Author – Jay KristoffStar rating - ★★★☆☆No. of Pages – 643Cover – Love it!POV – 3rd person, multi-POVWould I read it again – NoGenre – Fantasy, Assassin, Magic, Death** COPY RECEIVED THROUGH NETGALLEY **WARNINGS: scenes of death, poisoning, hanging, gut...
This is a grand fantasy of lies, betrayals, magics, lusts, secrets, revenge and murders. Mia, the girl who lived thanks to her shadow. She is a brave 10 year old when we start her story standing below the gallows where is father is to be hung. Holding the hand of her mother who preached that she mus...
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8 years ago
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