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From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy comes the first in a brilliant, breakout new fantasy series. A searing novel set in a brand new world, this series follows a young girl who enters a convent where girls are selected to train in religion, combat, or magic. Nona is selected to learn combat, and finds herself at the center of a epic battle for empire on the outer reaches of a dying universe.
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“Differences in age are an important part of Heather O’Neil’s portrayal of the primary characters in this audiobook. Nine-year-old Nona, who is rescued from the hangman’s noose, is initially wary of the abbess who saved her and keeps her distance from the other girls at the convent school as well…While the abbess and the other nuns sound authoritarian, O’Neil tempers their harshness, making clear their dedication to the welfare of their young students. O’Neil does justice to the lyrical prose, and provides a bonus: a few notes of the songs that are part of the story. In this first of the Ancestor series, O’Neil builds the relationships among the girls as they learn to trust and rely on one another.”
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“Dark, passionate, tense, with a female hero anyone could relate to—I was utterly fascinated! This is no pretty, flowery tale but one of vastly different people struggling to survive when a hostile government comes to power.”
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“In this stunning, action-filled series launch, Lawrence establishes a fantastic world in which religion and politics are sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands of wonderful and dangerous women. Impatient George R. R. Martin fans will find this a pleasing alternative until the next installment in his A Song of Ice and Fire saga arrives.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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A 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fantasy Narration
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michael bagley, 9/18/2020
About Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence is the author of fantasy novels, including the Broken Empire trilogy, the Red Queen’s War trilogy, and the Book of the Ancestor series. He is also a research scientist working on artificial intelligence. He is a dual national with both British and American citizenship, and has held secret-level clearance with both governments.
About Heather O’Neill
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her previous works include The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and CBC’s Canada Reads, as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. O’Neill has also won CBC’s Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award.