No, she is a heroine, and she proves it over and over again in the book.

Ismae is not a love sick or helpless damsel in distress who needs a knight in shining armor to save her. First, there was no stupid and unnecessary love triangle. By then, I was already looking forward to the next book, Dark Triumph.įrom the very beginning it was obvious that Grave Mercy was different from the other YA books I’ve read. I wasn’t satisfied until I finished the book. Grave Mercy starts off in a way, that by the first page, there was already a couple of questions swirling around my head. It captured me in a way that not many books have. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?įrom the first page, I was at the mercy of the book. Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany-where she finds herself woefully under prepared-not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts-and a violent destiny. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?

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