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Grave Mercy
Robin LaFevers · His Fair Assassin #1
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A girl blessed by Death's god trains as a holy assassin — and falls for the very man she's meant to spy on.
Character Archetypes
Microtropes
Representation
M/F
Content Warnings
abuse (physical)violence/goredeath of loved one
Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
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