It doesn’t make for pleasant reading and I’d advise reader discretion if that’s the kind of thing you’d rather avoid reading about, although you could probably just skip the first chapter or so and you’d get around it. We are also confronted within the first few pages with a forced marriage to a would-be abusive husband. To say this book plunges you in at the deep end is no understatement. We meet our character with a fun description about how her mother attempted to terminate her pregnancy (as in the mother’s pregnancy) and thus made her daughter have a special affinity with the old God Mortain (God of death). So this book, which promised me pretty much exactly that, was a sure-win for me. It would seem that a Catholic education left me with nothing but the ability to cross myself at a moments notice and the belief that all nuns must secretly be assassins. My love of Nevernight knows no bounds and Red Sister is another winner for me. I’ve not been shy on this blog before about discussing my passion for assassin books. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart? Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany-where she finds herself woefully under prepared-not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts-and a violent destiny. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? In today’s review, murder, nuns, forbidden romance, daggers hidden in boobs – it’s everything a girl could ask for. Hello Humans! Welcome back to another book review.

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