Red Sister
- 500
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Red Sister” turns a convent that trains girls to kill into an absorbing fantasy school story, written in prose that at times approaches the lyrical. The friendships among the novices are a particular strength, Nona Grey is a memorable lead, and the frozen world invites further exploring. Some readers find five hundred pages long for a book that mostly sets the stage for its trilogy.
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About the book
“I was born for killing – the gods made me to ruin” At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices’ skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse.
Reading order · The Book of the Ancestor
Full order & progress →- Red SisterThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - Grey Sister
8.48.4 / 10 - Holy Sister
8.38.3 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 419 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 74% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 21 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 398 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Red Sister?
It has 500 pages — shorter than 58% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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