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Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)

Jay Kristoff

Start date: September 16, 2018

Finish date: September 30, 2018

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Nov 21, 2018 Susan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

WOW what a ride this book takes you on. If I could rate it more stars I definitely would. It was gripping and such a roller coaster ride of emotions. I buddy read this book with my daughter and loved every second of reading it.

I hate to spoil books for anyone and trying to tell you what this book is about without spoilers is really hard.

Mia was a young girl who had some very tragic things happen to her. It set the pace for the way she ended up in the Red Church training to be an assassin. She h WOW what a ride this book takes you on. If I could rate it more stars I definitely would. It was gripping and such a roller coaster ride of emotions. I buddy read this book with my daughter and loved every second of reading it.

I hate to spoil books for anyone and trying to tell you what this book is about without spoilers is really hard.

Mia was a young girl who had some very tragic things happen to her. It set the pace for the way she ended up in the Red Church training to be an assassin. She had a shadow that was looked like a cat but not a cat she named him Mister Kindly and he helped take away her fears. He might be my second favorite character of this book. Mister Kindly and Mia had these conversations and most of the time they were so funny. He was always with her. She could control the shadow and was considered a darkin and even though throughout the whole book when never know what a Darkin is we know she can do some pretty bad ass things doing it. She is training in this secret church to be be a Blade and to exact revenge on some people who caused her a lot of pain when she was 10.

The Red Church has other students called Acolytes and there were some murders taking place at the training school of assassins. Most of the students I liked but a couple I really didn't like at all.

You find out a lot about what they kids that are there went there and what they are all working towards. There was a lot of world building in the beginning but it was still worth it to get to the action that was amazing. The end was sad but incredible. If I say anything about the end then it will ruin it but just know if you like fantasy then this book is so for you.

I read this book in OverDrive and I guess the physical books have a lot of footnotes there are no footnotes when you read it on OverDrive. I watched a couple reviews on this book and most of the people reviewing the book said the footnotes helped the world building but you didn't have to have them to understand what was going on. I don't know if I missed anything by not having them because I didn't know there were any until I watch a couple booktubers. One of the booktubers said she didn't read them her first time reading the book and the second time she read it she took her time and read all the footnotes and she said they added to world building. I'm just letting you know that if you pass on reading them or just skim them you will still get understand exactly what is going on in the book. Book 3 is not due to come out until Sept. of 2019 and I will probably reread book 1 and 2 and I will read get a physical copy so I can read the footnotes the second time around.

I recommend this book to fantasy lover 1,000% it was so worth the hype. ...more

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