The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Unfortunately, all characters adhere to the myth of a lily-white Europe.Ī thrilling ride and dazzling denouement-but to a pentalogy, not a duology.
Though most readers will have no trouble following the narrative’s central thread, only the fully entwined will stitch together a tapestry on par with the five-volume arras begun in the His Fair Assassin series. Can Death’s own daughters survive the ceaseless scheming, much less while preserving France and Brittany, their chosen families, and the old gods? LaFevers’ dynamic, fully realized protagonists once again shine in alternating first-person accounts-and, better still, are afforded love interests every bit their equals. Meanwhile, France’s regent seeks power at every turn Pierre, Sybella’s bloodthirsty brother, pursues malevolent ends of his own and the enforced monotheism of 15th-century Europe grinds in tension with the Nine, a set of pre-Christian deities Sybella and Genevieve serve.
Surrounded by manipulators and shrinking in his father’s shadow, the king struggles to find his footing as a ruler. Sybella, an assassin trained by the convent of Saint Mortain and attendee to the former Duchess of Brittany, now Queen of France, makes contact with Genevieve, a fellow novitiate foundering five years into her infiltration of the French court. Rife with labyrinthine plotting, swoonworthy romance, and endless intrigue, the 500-plus–page conclusion to LaFevers’ Courting Darkness duology resumes in medias res.
Two daughters of Death test their faith and meet their fate.
0 kommentar(er)
