Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, Book 1)
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Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, Book 1)
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Narrated by:
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Helen Duff
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Mark Lawrence
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It's not until you're broken that you find your sharpest edge.
"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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Critic reviews
‘An excellent writer.’ George R.R. Martin
'If you like fresh, take-no-prisoners fantasy, this is for you'
No.1 New York Times bestselling author Rick Riordan
‘Dark, passionate, tense, with a female hero anyone could relate to–I was utterly fascinated! This is no pretty, flowery tale, but one of vastly different people struggling to survive when a hostile government comes to power’ – No.1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce
‘This is a book very distinct from everything that came before; what it has in common though is a narrative that pulls no punches, and characters that are beautifully, brokenly, repellently, cleverly human’ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews
‘I had never thought it was possible to find a greater character than the Emperor Jorg Ancrath. I had never even slightly considered that there might be a fantasy world out there toppling that of Τhe Final Empire, and most definitely, I had never thought that i could love a book more than The Night Angel. But here we are’ BookNest
‘Any other author is going to have to smack the ball way, way out of the park to top this read’ Parmenion Books
Another perfect book from Lawrence
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If you had told me that I would be blown away by a book about a bunch of little girls attending a convent then I would have called your sobriety into question. However from the second I started the book to the very end, I was hooked.It's a little bit like the book Blood Song by Anthony Ryan except it is infinitely better. The basic premise is about a young girl who, after some unpleasantness with a child taker and a gallows, finds herself training to be a nun. Thankfully for me at least, the nuns are the fighting kind not just the praying kind. There are some prophesies, some interesting magical systems and a strange world to explore, all linked with an almost poetic writing style.
I particularly liked the sci-fi element of the worlds origins. Apparently, although the world is the usual medieval type affair, the people on the planet were carried there in space ships hundreds of generations before to escape a dying sun.
If I were to try to find a problem with it, it would be that it takes a while for the reader to understand all the magic and the nature of the world. However as the main character is a child and doesn't understand these things herself I guess it makes sense.
I'm fairly certain that, once the next book comes out, this series will sit in my top 5 fantasy series alongside,The Kingkiller Chronicals, the Codex Alerea, The Stormlight Archive and the Riftwar Cycle.
Nun better
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Absolutely fantastic
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I don't write many reviews, but I had to with this serious! it was that good!
I also must say the narrator in these books helped bring everything together! she had a feline voice, in the best way, uou will completely understand if you lisyen to it, even the clip!!! PIPER!
This book was, captivating, and gripping!
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To say that Red Sister was interesting would not do it justice, it was thrilling to listen to and frankly ended too soon. I loved the dynamic of the relationship between characters. I also loved the protagonist of this tale, she was both gritty and what I can only described as, well, 'human' in her imperfections.
Honestly I can not wait for the next instalment.
If there were one criticism I had to make, it would be that at times the audio was not loud enough.
Thrilling
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