Red Sister Red Sister
Book 1 - Book of the Ancestor

Red Sister

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Publisher Description

The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen’s War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors...
 
At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls.
 
A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass’s care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family—and new enemies. 
 
Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona’s secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself.
 
Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2017
April 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Studiocher ,

Powerful

At last, something of interest and good enough to hold the attention. Great storytelling, great characters, great writing. You can’t ask more of a book.

STEMteacher2020 ,

Blood and Kids

Not sure why little children are always the ones who have to do whole battles. Still, I read it to the end. I’m not going to keep going to the next book.

T-weave ,

Almost dropped this book, but so glad I didn’t!!

4.5/5

The first 30% is a 3/5.
30-50% is a 5/5.
And the rest of the book is between 4 and 5/5.

I almost dropped this book around 30%, but I reminded myself how much I loved Lawrence’s Prince of Thorns and I kept going. I’m so glad.

This book has a lot of things going for it: fascinating world-building, an interesting main character, and an engaging history of Abeth’s powers and magics.

The main issue I had with this book was how slowly these things were revealed. Of course, slowly unraveling a plot is critical in storytelling to create intrigue and suspense, but it happened wayyyy too slow in this book. To put it plainly, the first 30% of the book is just boring. You barely learn anything about the characters or Abeth, only little teases here and there.

Past the 30% mark (or around there), Red Sister is an entirely new book. And once you hit 40-50% the ball is rolling and it doesn’t stop!

I loved this book, and if you’re struggling to read the first part I promise it gets better. It gets amazing and so, so satisfying. Can’t wait to read the rest of the trilogy!!

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