Book Blurb:
"The Guild is my life. I didn't choose it, didn't want it for years. But when I stopped fighting it, stopped trying to resist all the ways they were trying to change me, I realized I enjoy it. All the teasing, all the mocking, all the quips about pointy ears and the girl whose parents didn't want her—they don't matter in a fight.
I'll be hated for the work I do—and I'll love every minute of it."
Merciless is a Young Adult fantasy epic perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones.
After being taken by the illustrious Assassins' Guild when she was one week old, Mercy has endured seventeen years of grueling training in the art of killing. She is covered in more scars than she can count—gifts from her cruel tutors and the human apprentices who do not tolerate being bested by an elf—and she's more than ready to prove her worth to the head of the Guild.
In the capital city of Sandori, elf-human violence runs rampant and a king mad with grief rules with an iron fist. All that stands between Mercy and her chance to become the greatest Assassin the Guild has ever trained is the handsome and kind Prince Tamriel. If she succeeds in killing him, she will earn the respect and admiration of her childhood tormentors and will be immortalized in the Guild. Faced with political tension, rampant disease, and strange supernatural occurrences, Mercy realizes that her actions not only affect her and Tamriel, but that the fate of the kingdom hangs in the balance.
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My Review:
4 Out Of 5 Stars
Genre: Another-World, Faeries, Historical, Royal-Court, Suspense, Teen--z
Mercy wants nothing more than to be an Assassin, instead of just the initiate she has been for the last 17 years- her whole life, unlike the girls who are given the opportunity to test this year to be an Assassin. When Mercy gets the opportunity to participate in the competition, completely against the rules, she leaps at it with no regard for the consequences. What comes next is a dangerous mission that Mercy may actually come to regret taking part in because not everything is as it appears.
I have a total case of cover love going on here, it is just so gorgeous and I love it! I am interested to see what the next book in the series will have on the cover because I am a total cover snob.
There was a definite Throne of Glass meets The Lord of the Rings feel for me here. We have an abandoned girl training her whole life for this one (terrible, unethical?) goal of being an assassin, willing to do anything to achieve it. The world itself felt like an epic fantasy with elves and adventure, and a life altering (shattering?) quest. I will admit that I had a rocky start with Merciless, I had a hard time getting into the book for at least the first fourth. I was learning about the world right during the middle of a huge event for the Assassin's Guild, while trying to understand the guild AND get to know Mercy- I was overwhelmed and confused. It made it hard for me to connect to Mercy as a person since I did not know if I should root for her or want to hate her. Once I fully understood what was going on I was able to get invested in the story and all the twists and turns Mercy took. Even if I did not always agree with her choices, I cared about Mercy and her well being.
Side note here- I really loved Calum. When I first met him I thought he would be a great love interest for Mercy but then their relationship evolved into a snarky banter, almost as if they were siblings or life long friends and I liked the change between them.
The ending of the story was most certainly not the end but the beginning of more danger and hard choices for Mercy. I would love to see what happens next!
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