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Book: Death Warden

Author: CJ Stilling

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: fantasy, assassin novels, monsters

Publication Date: November 15, 2019

Genre: YA Fantasy

Recommended Age: can’t recommend, DNF-ed

Publisher: Fantastically Minded

Pages: 406

Synopsis: A teenage assassin. An impossible choice. The fate of everything hangs in the balance…

Sixteen-year-old Reen swore she’d never take another life. Divinely selected to assassinate a few in order to save many, she learned to jump from shadow to shadow and claim her victims without question… until she was ordered to kill the boy she loved. But when an ancient plague returns threatening to infect everyone she knows, she is forced to resume her deadly duties.


Battling a disease that turns people into nightmarish monsters, Reen must track down and terminate those responsible before the city falls, and the evil spreads beyond its borders. But the closer she gets to the source, the more she uncovers sinister secrets that will shake the foundations of her world and everything she believes.


Can Reen defend her realm without losing her soul?

Review: This book seems like a really good read, but I had to DNF at 34%. There wasn’t anything really wrong with it, the plot was interesting and the world building was pretty good, but I just didn’t feel any connection with the characters and I couldn’t get into it.

Verdict: It seems so good, but not for me.