(2) YA His Fair Assassin series. Annith, daughter of Mortain, god of Death, rebels against her abbess's decree that she remain immured in the convent as Mortain's seeress. Her escape revolutionizes Annith's understanding of her nature. LaFevers's writing often slips to the banal depths of an adolescent's romantic fantasy and overwhelms engagement with the story's fictional fifteenth-century-Brittany setting. Even so, LaFevers effectively ties up loose ends of the trilogy's cast.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2014

(2) YA His Fair Assassin series. In this sequel to Grave Mercy Sybella is now a convent-trained assassin serving St. Mortain, Death himself, picking off her marks with stealthy efficiency even while she remains terrified of her father's cruelty. Loosely based on political events in fifteenth-century France, this is romantic fantasy with a vengeance, a pungent mix of inner torment, costume drama, and dagger-, sword-, poison-, and garrote-play.

Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2013

(2) YA His 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