Three years have passed since the climax of Red Sister, and we find Nona on the threshold of Mystic Class – the penultimate class for novices at the convent of Sweet Mercy. Having waited for the relative calm of the hiatus between Christmas and New Year, I consumed Grey Sister in a bare three days – and I would have been faster but for the commitments of yuletide family life.įinishing a book quickly is a good indication of its readability, the flow of the story and the enduring quality of Lawrence’s poetic prose, drawing me in and on as skilfully as an angler landing a fish. In December, I acquired an ARC of Grey Sister, the second book in the Book of the Ancestor trilogy. You can read more of my review of Red Sister here.
Last January I met Nona Grey for the first time and followed her through triumph and adversity (not necessarily in that order) as she trod the path of – for want of a better phrase – ninja-nun in training. 2017 ended for me as it began: with an ARC of the latest Mark Lawrence masterpiece – neatly bookending an epic year.
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