Godsgrave

Gentlefriends, how have I not read this series before now? The Nevernight Chronicles are rapidly rising to my favourite series. The gentle sardonic wit that underlies these tales of brutal assassination and mass murder is a joy to read. Mia has to be one of the best and most likably sympathetic portrayals of an assassin/mass killer out there.

This second installment takes the action away from the assassin training school to a gladiator training school, with Mia producing an elaborate plot to assassinate someone based on posing as a gladiator.

The real stars of the show are Mia's two shadows - Mr Kindly and Eclipse. Their bickering is hugely entertaining and provides the comedic background (along with the narrators footnotes) to what is otherwise a brutal story.

Godsgrave takes all the good parts of Nevernight and just continues with them. A worthy successor.