and I have to say that neither the latter two authors were able to do that, they rather treated their characters with cavalier disregard for our finer senses.

However it is going to be probably one year before the follow-up books comes out, by which time we have all forgotten what the first book was about.Ī good writer can make you breathe with their hero/heroine, taste their food smell the air and feel the fabric of their clothes on their bodies. This is all very fine if the next book is going to come out within a couple of months. they are not complete in and of themselves. They both finish halfway through the most exciting event in the books. One thing that really annoyed me about both of these books is that they are cliffhangers. Having sadly come to the end of Lani Taylor's 'the Muse of Nightmares', I moved on to the much anticipated 'Courting Darkness' a follow-up to the trilogy by Robin Lafevers, followed by 'These Rebel Waves'' by Sara Raasch. They can make the world in which they live vibrant and surrounding. A good writer can make the protagonists come alive with in-depth characterisation. Two things are important for a good book, firstly the story has to be really good and secondly and perhaps more importantly the writing has to be excellent. As their worlds threaten to collide, the fate of everything they hold sacred rests on a knife's edge.Īlmost every book I read these days has 'New York Times bestseller ing author' along the top of it on the front cover. When tragedy strikes, she takes matters into her own hands, even when it means forsaking the long-awaited orders from the convent.įollowed from alternating perspectives, Sybella's and Gen's paths draw ever closer. Her only solace is a hidden prisoner who appears all but forgotten by his guards. Genevieve has been undercover for so many years, she struggles to remember who she is or what she's meant to be fighting for. Surrounded by enemies, their one ray of hope is Sybella's fellow novitiates, hidden deep in the French court years ago-provided Sybella can find them. But in a desperate bid to keep her two youngest sisters from the family that nearly destroyed them all, she agrees to accompany the duchess to France. Sybella has always been the darkest of Death's daughters, trained at the convent of Saint Mortain to serve as his justice. Set in the world of the His Fair Assassin series, this first in a new duology now has four starred reviews! From New York Times best-selling author Robin LaFevers comes Courting Darkness, a 'sharp and breathless' ( Kirkus Reviews ) historical fantasy for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Game of Thrones.

Courting darkness by robin lafevers