Red Sister
Readers rate it 4.1 (442 on Hardcover)
672 pages · Released Apr 1, 2017 · Blue Door
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Red Sister is a dark fantasy centered on girls trained as assassins and warriors, with significant combat violence and morally complex themes. While it features strong character development, found family, and ultimately redemptive messages about choosing who you want to become, the setting involves killing, blood, trauma, and some mature content. This is marketed as YA/crossover but skews toward the older teen end due to its intensity and the protagonist's dark past.
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From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire trilogy and the Red Queen's War trilogy, comes the first in a brilliant, breakout new fantasy series. "I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin"At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, giftin... From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire trilogy and the Red Queen's War trilogy, comes the first in a brilliant, breakout new fantasy series. "I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin"At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.
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- Strong Character Development
- Character driven
- Loveable Characters
- Diverse Characters
- A mix driven
- from-audible
- fantlab-import
- Genre: Fantasy
- dark
- medium-paced
- Adventurous
- tense
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ISBN 9780008152307 · Blue Door