Absorbing in its complexity and bold in its bloodiness, this beginning promises (and delivers) equal shares of beauty and decay. Kristoff portrays a world as rife with villains and treachery as the ancient Italian civilizations it echoes.

'Launching the Nevernight fantasy series, Kristoff (the Lotus War trilogy) creates a splendid world of corruption and violence. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires. Treachery and trials await her with the Church's halls, and to fail is to die. Now, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic - the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father's former comrades. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father's failed rebellion with her life. 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. Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff. About the Book A thrilling new series from acclaimed fantasy author Jay Kristoff: an assassin must decide on the price of revenge.

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