Bridget Lamonica Apr 9, 2019
The story of Nona, the orphan-turned-nun trained for battle, comes to a climactic end in the final Book of the Ancestor.
This Holy Sister review contains spoilers for the previous Book of the Ancestor books, but only minor spoilers for the third book in the trilogy.
First off, if you haven’t read Red Sister or Grey Sister (the first two books in the Book of the Ancestor trilogy), you need to drop everything and read them now. This is my favorite series to come from this author so far. To put that in context, I have already read and loved Mark Lawrence's previous two series: The Broken Empire and The Red Queen’s War.
Here's what you may have missed: Nona was an orphan taken in by the Sweet Mercy convent as a child. The novices at the convent are trained in four different classes and...
The story of Nona, the orphan-turned-nun trained for battle, comes to a climactic end in the final Book of the Ancestor.
This Holy Sister review contains spoilers for the previous Book of the Ancestor books, but only minor spoilers for the third book in the trilogy.
First off, if you haven’t read Red Sister or Grey Sister (the first two books in the Book of the Ancestor trilogy), you need to drop everything and read them now. This is my favorite series to come from this author so far. To put that in context, I have already read and loved Mark Lawrence's previous two series: The Broken Empire and The Red Queen’s War.
Here's what you may have missed: Nona was an orphan taken in by the Sweet Mercy convent as a child. The novices at the convent are trained in four different classes and...
- 4/9/2019
- Den of Geek
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