The main character – Mia – is pleasingly complex every time you think you have her figured out she does something unexpected to keep us intrigued. But I’d urge you to stick with the story because if you’re looking for action, the later parts of the book deliver it in spades. It is true that I didn’t feel the story fully got into its stride until Mia gets to the Red Church, although you could hardly call her journey there uneventful. However, that said, I didn’t feel that any of the swearing, nastiness or sex was gratuitous or an attempt to shock (apart from when a character might have been trying to provoke another), but rather was all in keeping with plot and character development. Be prepared for graphic everything: language, sex and violence.
And it delivers on all that and then some. So, what else do you need to know? Firstly, we are warned in the prologue that this book is going to be unflinching, uncompromising and unsentimental. In fact, it’s “stay-awake-past-2-in-the-morning-willing-your-eyes-to-stay-open-so-you-can-finish” good. I’ve been quite surprised by how Nevernight appears to be dividing readers into clear “hate it/DNF’d it” vs. The Red Church is no Hogwarts, but Mia is no ordinary student.
She must prove herself against the deadliest of friends and enemies, and survive the tutelage of murderers, liars and demons at the heart of a murder cult. Six years later, the child raised in shadows takes her first steps towards keeping the promise she made on the day that she lost everything.īut the chance to strike against such powerful enemies will be fleeting, so if she is to have her revenge, Mia must become a weapon without equal. The blurb: Destined to destroy empires, Mia Covere is only ten years old when she is given her first lesson in death. Nevernight is published in the US today, August 9th, and in the UK on August 11th. Thank you to Harper Voyager and NetGalley for giving me an e-copy of this book in return for an honest review.
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