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549 pp.
| Houghton |
April, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-547-62834-9$16.99
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YAHis Fair Assassin series.
Running from an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Ismae lands up at St. Mortain's convent, discovers she has special gifts (and that her true father is Mortain, the god of Death), and trains to become an assassin--the true vocation of a daughter of Death. This light romantic fantasy, set in an alternate, fictional, quasi-late medieval Brittany, might well appeal to fans of Libba Bray's Rebel Angels books.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2012