Maw only knows what the daemons who serve them can do.” Slip through your shadow and kill you in your dreams. “I’ve heard tell darkin can steal the breath from your lungs. And together they are a wickedly formidable team. Touched by the night, Chosen of Niah, the Black Mother, she has power over shadows and has a friend who is always by her side. Mia has no intention of becoming a Hand, and luckily, she has a rare advantage over the rest of her fellows. Four will be chosen as Blades (assassins), the rest as Hands (servants). Upon arrival though, she sees that she is not the only apprentice with high hopes and bloody ambitions. Her Shahiid, Mercurio, has trained her as well as he was able to, but now after her first kill, it is time to further her training and to journey to the school in the hope of becoming one of the elite and feared Red Church assassins, all to serve her ultimate goal: revenge. The Maw is the goddess of the Red Church and Mia’s tithe will serve as her entry requirement to this elite school. Sisterwife to Aa, and mother to the hungry Dark within us all.” The story starts off with her making her first kill which will serve as a tithe to the Maw. The protagonist, Mia, is a girl bent on revenge, hoping to make the cut in a fabled assassin school called the Red Church. Martin’s Press (US)Ī deviously dark and thrilling tale, Nevernight is the first book I read by Jay Kristoff and I loved every murderous second of it. Published: 25 th July 2016 by Harper Voyager (UK) & 9 th August 2016 by St.

Series: The Nevernight Chronicle (Book #1 of 3)

Nevernight by jay kristoff