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[telophase]

Just going to point out that I am somwhat surprised that Robin LaFevers' His Fair Assassin trilogy doesn't seem to have made it onto Yuletide this year.

Anyway: Trilogy set in an AU 15th century France, with plot motivated by things that happened in our history.* The main focus, however, is a CONVENT devoted to the GOD OF DEATH that trains YOUNG WOMEN said to be the DAUGHTERS OF DEATH to be ASSASSINS. If that sort of thing appeals to you, have at it. You're welcome.

Trigger warnings: the women who are taken in by the convent often have traumatic background, especially the one who is the focus of Book 2. If you get triggered by not-that-explicit abuse**, then you may want to read some reviews first or just skip to Book 3.



* It's a time and area I know almost nothing about, so can't tell you if the slight rearranging of times, events, and peoples that the author cops to in the afterwords would bother me or not.

** IIRC. It's been a few months since I read that one.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

That is surprising! It's not my personal cuppa (I am rather critical of medieval European worldbuilding, for reasons), but it definitely seems like the sort of thing that would engage some Yuletide folks.

[telophase]

I know just enough about various bits of medieval and Renaissance social history that if an author does something like describe fashions with enormous ruffs set in an obviously medieval milieu, it jars me out of the story. But I am happily ignorant enough of the politics that messing about with that goes right over my head. :)

That being said, I'm not sure why the story had to be set in medieval France, when it could have served just as well by filing off a few serial numbers.

[thistleingrey]

Heh, well, the first book (the only one I've read) wants to make Anne's historical moment important, but for me there's not nearly enough political drive to sustain it. Loss of an independent kingdom (Brittany) is a big deal, to be sure.

[kore]

Yowza!

(I love the covers on Amazon, too. //shallow)

[telophase]

Yup! I ended up reading the first one because I kept mixing it up with Sarah Maas' Throne of Glass, featuring a pseudo-medieval female assassin, but of the two I liked LaFevers' more.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

a CONVENT devoted to the GOD OF DEATH that trains YOUNG WOMEN said to be the DAUGHTERS OF DEATH to be ASSASSINS

Kewl! :-)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Had I encountered this during my teenage years I would have been insufferable over it!