But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends. After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she "like-likes" but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street.
The prose’s beauty inspires immediate re-reads of many a sentence, but its forward momentum is irresistible.Īn intricate, masterful page-turner about politics, treachery, religion, love and healing.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. LaFevers weaves the “crazed, tangled web” of Sybella’s life (including her tortured past) with force, suspense and subtle tenderness. Is Mortain her real father, and has he rejected her? When an unexpected assignment arrives-a rescue, shockingly, not an assassination-it requires all of Sybella’s physical and emotional strength and stealth, plus the use of her sterling assassin skills in active battle. Living there requires a soul-breaking dance of flirtation and survival, and she is never safe. In a castle that d’Albret stole from Brittany’s steadfast 13-year-old duchess, Sybella waits to see a marque on d’Albret’s body so she can kill him with Mortain’s grace. Now Sybella’s a trained assassin, serving Mortain, the god of Death. Unknown to Ismae, Sybella is d’Albret’s daughter, raised in a household in which her kindest brother demanded sex from her and their father murdered wife after wife. Readers last glimpsed Sybella through Ismae’s eyes ( Grave Mercy, 2012), serving in the entourage of d’Albret, a bloodthirsty Breton noble.
An assassin with a will of steel fights her way through deadly palace deceptions, sickening sexual servitude and baffling assignments from her convent, becoming a major player in Brittany’s 15th-century resistance of French occupation.
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