I know they needed to give her an adversary among her peers, but I felt maybe someone like Carlotta was more suited.
Once Mia gets to the Church, I really don’t like her relationship with Jessamin. I also noticed a lot more clues this time around, the person scribbling in blood in the Old Imperial is Naev as she follows them, Mouser hints at Lord Cassius being Darkin, not directly yet he says he hasn’t seen anyone resist the Discord as well as Mia did since Lord Cassius, and the only reason Mia resisted so well was because she is Darkin. The journey to the Quiet Mountain with Tric is one of my favourite parts of the book as these two character grow really close to each other and they end up becoming best friends before they become lovers which is one of the things I absolutely adore about this book. Mia is a person ruled by her emotions and feels things really deeply and this isn’t the kind of personality suited to an assassin who needs to look at everyone with cold detachment like the Ministry, but we still root for her, even knowing this. Reading this book for like the 5 th or 6 th times I realizes Mia isn’t actually as smart as I thought as she makes a lot of rash or downright stupid decisions.
That being said her humour and wit are brilliant and the only people that really match her in this department are Mercurio and Ash. The first ¼ of Nevernight is all set up as we are introduced to the world, the characters, their motivates and so on before Mia even gets to the Red Church. The opening scene is still utter perfection, the duality between Mia’s first sexual encounter and her first conscious assassination are beautiful and how she reacts to each tells us exactly the kind of person Mia is before we even really know her. The opening line of Nevernight is going to continue to be one of my all-time favourite probably for the rest of my life but it does set the tone of the series really well. This time I am going to re-read the series in order to finish the series. Review: So, I have reviewed Nevernight and Godsgrave quite a few times now, but I have never read Darkdawn despite owning it since its release.
Title: Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1)
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