Remember Inej in the very last chapter of Crooked Kingdom? Through Pekkas POV: dark, determined, ready to avenge the people who hurt her and her friends? Slipping in the shadows and handling knives as if they were part of her body? Hmm yes.

Meet Mia Corvere:
A 16 year old girl, alone, with no one to talk to but the dark shadows around her and a cat (...who was not a cat...) who takes her fears away. Her family was murdered in front of her when she was a kid so she decides to become an apprentice assassin in order to avenge her family.
How. Cool. Does that sound???

'Byss and blood I reeeally liked this book. It took some time to get into, I'll admit that. The beginning was a little difficult to read (although very clever imo) with different types of writing and a loooot of footnotes but that aspect gets easier to deal with as we go along.
Once we got to the actual assassin lessons, with fellow acolytes, murder, blood, sweat and a few tears, THAT was when it got great.

The characters grew on me. DON'T GET ATTACHED i told myself in vain... I ended up loving more than a couple of them...
O Daughters, the pain...

Some of the plot-twists were great, a couple didn't surprise me that much, another I wondered why only a 16 yo trainee saw coming and not the whole room of teaching assassins..?

But in the end what came out of this for me was a strong introduction to an amazing world with brilliant characters. We've only seen a tiny amount of what this story is ready to offer and I am in dire need of MORE.
Please? Please just release Book 2 early. Thank you.