Don’t let the title (which I’m not a huge fan of) put you off. I noticed my favourite book of last year was Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox, so I have a theme going now.īlue lily, lily blue, Maggie Stiefvater – can’t say a lot about this book without ruining everything and spoiling things, except to say you should definitely read it, having first read The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves. Annith must choose between being locked in a room in the convent for the rest of her life, or going against her vows and striking out on her own in search of the truth (which would you rather?).
In Mortal Heart Annith – who has taken a back seat in the previous two books – is desperately keen to prove herself as an assassin, but she’s foiled by the abbess’ plans for her to take over as the new convent seer. Mortal Heart, Robin LaFevers – I have gone on a lot about the assassin nun books, but they are really good, honestly. Read right to the bottom for a chance to WIN! If you’re going to read anything from this year, give these a go. (Jan.Lots of neat books have been released in the past 12 months, and we’ve rounded up our very favourites of the bunch just for you. It takes a couple hundred pages to get past the stereotypical prim nerd and angry thug, and readers may struggle to invest in Sadie and Ford, despite the mounting danger around then. While Jaffe (Ghost Flower) plausibly sets up the mind-reading conceit, such effort is not invested upfront in her characters. As a character, Sadie is little more than her over-packed college application, and her observations (and judgments) of Ford take too long to coalesce into a plot.
The premise is enticing, though Jaffe’s exploration of it is laden with exposition and slow to unfold. He doesn’t know that Roque Industries, via its community health outreach program, has planted a chip in his brain that allows Sadie to ride along, looking out of his eyes and experiencing his every thought and emotion. Ford is a Subject: impoverished, enraged, and ignorant. Privileged and high achieving, she has won a prestigious fellowship from the Roque Mind Corps to study a fellow human being in the most intimate way-by entering that person’s mind.
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