C. S. E. Cooney

Fun, froofy and glorious: a coming-of-age story in a new trilogy from World Fantasy Award-winning author C.S.E Cooney Life gets complicated when Death gets involved. To be born into a family of royal assassins pretty much guarantees that your life is going to be... rather unusual. Especially if, like Miscellaneous "Lanie" Stones, you also have a vicious allergy to all forms of violence and bloodshed, and an uncanny affinity for bringing the dead back to life. To make matters worse, family debt looms – a debt that will have to be paid sooner rather than later if Lanie and her sister are to retain ownership of the ancestral seat, Stones Manor. Lanie finds herself courted and threatened by powerful parties who would love to use her worryingly intimate relationship with the goddess of death for their own nefarious ends. But the goddess has other plans...

Saint Death's Daughter

Moonchild

I was granted a copy of this book by Netgalley, in exchange for my honest opinion. 
The plot it is very interesting and unexpected everytime i discovered something new.     I enjoyed the world building, it was overwhelming at some points to keep up with all, too many information dropped at once, but the way that the author wrote this making it possible for us read it like we were there, living it. I feel like the start was slow-paced for me, it toke a wile to see things happening, made me put the book down a few times, but I kept me interested enough to know the end. The characters where very intense and interesting, the darkness and cruelty, almost sociopath characteristics. I overall enjoyed for how different was and dark for a exchange on my reading style. 
I could feel my emotions change along with the development of the story, and I always love that in a book.

Moon Child

Alice Hyman

This book has such an interesting premise - the world is both cutthroat and fairy tale like. The one thing that really held it back for me was the amount of info dumping that went on, as well as the tangents that appeared to have absolutely no effect on the story.

The whole book has a very surreal aspect to it, it spans many years the magic itself seems to change. Though again, the world building is sparse where there is actual action or dialog - for me the book could have been 50% shorter and it would have been perfect. 

The characters themselves were really unique, I wish we could have seen more character development throughout and had a more concrete idea of their motivations. 

It also should be mention that a male is kidnapped, held against their will and raped though none of this is directly mentioned 

Overall the premise of the world was good as well as the foundation of the characters but more world building and character development is needed and less info dumping.

Saint Death's Daughter

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