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    Death Marked
    Death Marked
    Death Marked
    Audiobook8 hours

    Death Marked

    Written by Leah Cypess

    Narrated by Cris Dukehart

    3.5/5

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    A young sorceress's entire life has been shaped to destroy the empire controlling her world. She could change history. But everything she thinks she knows is a lie. The sequel to the critically acclaimed Death Sworn will thrill fans of Leigh Bardugo and Robin LaFevers.

    At seventeen, Ileni lost her magical power and was exiled to the hidden caves of the assassins. She trained the assassins in magic—and fell in love with one of them. And she discovered her entire life had been built on a lie. After all of this, she wants to see the truth for herself. She infiltrates the Imperial Academy of Sorcery. She will see everything she despises about the corrupt empire—its thirst for power, merciless control, and careless violence. But she also finds something she never expected—friends, and a place to belong. Ileni no longer knows whose side she is on. Leah Cypess spins an intricate and beautiful conclusion to Death Sworn.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9780062368065
    Author

    Leah Cypess

    Leah Cypess wrote her first short story—in which the narrator was an ice cream cone—at the age of six. She has degrees in biology, journalism, and law, and has traveled to Iceland, Israel, Jordan, and Costa Rica, among other places. She now lives with her family in Maryland. She is also the author of the acclaimed fantasy novels Death Marked, Mistwood, and Nightspell.

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    • 3/5
      Hated it. SPOILER:Sloppy resolution to the bad Sorin love story. Character hugely frustrating - changing directions 4-8 times before deciding on something completely differentNo resolution to the overall conflict - which is ok in this case - unless we've been promised one throughout the book. This could have ended 4-6 times before it did. It just keeps trudging along in despair and then doesn't end - threatening a 3rd part.
    • 3/5
      Diese und weitere Rezensionen findet ihr auf meinem Blog Anima Libri - Buchseele

      „Death Marked: Die Magierin der Assassinen“ von Leah Cypess ist eins dieser Bücher, die irgendwie so nichtssagend sind, dass man sie zwar definitiv nicht als gut bezeichnen kann, aber trotzdem liest man sie komplett durch, weil sie auch nicht so schlecht oder nervtötend wären, dass man sie einfach nicht durchhält.

      Ileni, die Protagonistin des Romans, gehört einem Völkchen Vertriebener an, die ähm ja… eine Gruppe Magier, die aus dem Imperium geflüchtet sind, weil sie deren Ansichten über die Nutzung von Magie nicht geteilt haben – oder so. Aber bei denen sind auch nicht alle magisch, denn viele verlieren mit zunehmendem Alter ihre Magie, die wenigen, bei denen das nicht der Fall ist, werden zu eingebildeten, elitären Magier-Schnöseln ausgebildet. So auch Ileni, nur das sie ihre Magie dummerweise doch verliert, also wird sie kurzerhand zu den Assassinen geschickt, mit deren Meister die Ältesten aus Ilenis Volk die Vereinbarung haben, dass sie ihnen einen Magier zur Verfügung stellen, der die magiebegabten Assassinen unterrichten soll.

      Ileni jedenfalls wird nach den Toden der letzten beiden Lehrer in die Höhlen der Assassinen geschickt, ohne Magie und mit dem Auftrag, die beiden Todesfälle aufzuklären – eine Selbstmordmission, aber wieso auch nicht, Ileni will ja schließlich eh nicht mehr leben, immerhin hat sie nun, da ihre Magie schwindet und sie plötzlich ja nicht mehr die größte und tollste Magierin aller Zeiten ist, ja eigentlich eh keinerlei Lebensberechtigung geschweige denn einen Sinn mehr, wieso also nicht in den sicheren Tod gehen? Dass sie nicht sterben wird, ist dem Leser natürlich von Anfang an klar, es wäre wohl zu unkonventionell, wenn man seine Protagonistin in Band 1 umbringen würde.

      Diese Assassinen, zu denen Ileni geschickt wird, sind ein Haufen Jungs, die allesamt einer Gehirnwäsche unterzogen wurden und die sich nichts besseres vorstellen können, als für ihren Meister zu sterben – noch mehr Todessehnsüchte also. Und natürlich ist einer unter ihnen besonders sexy und besonders mysteriöse, Sorin! Und der ist ja ach so rebellisch und überhaupt und sowieso und Ileni ist quasi das erste Mädchen, das er jemals sieht und, naja, es kommt, was kommen musste und es kommt noch eine ganz herrliche Schnulzkomponente zur ansonsten erstaunlich inhaltsleeren Geschichte. Denn eigentlich passiert nicht wirklich etwas. Ileni versucht zu verheimlichen, dass sie ihre Magie verliert, Sorin ist öhm ja, keine Ahnung, was er ist, vor allem wohl frei jeglicher Charakterentwicklung, und der Meister weiß alles, beeinflusst alles und hat alles geplant, gibt aber nichts preis – das perfekte Storyelement um „Deus Ex Machina“ Elemente zu rechtfertigen.

      Man merkt, ich bin restlos begeistert von „Death Marked: Die Magierin der Assassinen“ von Leah Cypress… Ich kann beim besten Willen nicht verstehen, warum andere den Weltenaufbau in diesem Roman so hochgelobt haben, denn meiner Meinung nach passiert in diesem Serienauftakt nicht nur nichts, was man nicht auf maximal zehn Seiten hätte zusammenfassen können, es gibt auch keinen ernsthaft gelungenen Weltaufbau, nur Geschichten über Geschichten, von denen jede die absolute Wahrheit für sich beansprucht, bei denen man aber von Anfang an das Gefühl hat, dass nicht eine von ihnen auch nur ansatzweise wirklich wahr ist.

      Alles in allem konnte mich Leah Cypress mit dem Auftakt zu ihrer „Death Marked“ Reihe nicht wirklich begeistern, eigentlich fand ich das Buch herrlich langweilig und ziemlich nichtssagend, ich habe es zwar in einem Rutsch durchgelesen, aber empfehlen würde ich es ehrlich gesagt nicht und ob ich den nächsten Band lesen möchte, kann ich beim besten Willen nicht sagen… Schade, das hätte deutlich cooler sein können! :|
    • 4/5
      Lots more magic than book one, minimal romantic angst, and another unpredictable ending, I'm pleased!
    • 3/5
      This is the 2nd book in the Death Marked duology. I was pretty disappointed in this book. It was just fairly boring and this book didn’t add a lot of resolution to the story.Ileni has been kidnapped and finds her herself in the very heart of the Evil Empire with the sorcerers there. There she is forced to train with the Empire’s sorcerers. She hopes to find a way to escape and hopes to find a way to sabotage the Empire from the inside. However as she gets to know the sorcerers of the Empire better she wonders how much she can really affect this eternal battle between the Empire and the Assassins. This was an easy read but provided horrible resolution to the story. The plot is all over the place and Ileni is completely indecisive. I felt very disappointed with how much progress the story made and how things wrapped up. This is supposed to be the final book in the duology and I feel like nothing really happened.I understand Ileni’s confusion; she is thrown from one extreme to the other but she is so wishy-washy. In the end I kind of felt like she threw her hands up in the air and just decided she couldn’t make much of a difference. Not really the type of story I enjoy reading.The romance between the characters is lacking in the extreme. Our favorite deadly assassin is hardly in the story at all. Despite the supposed undying love between him and Ileni, neither one of them is willing to compromise at all to find a middle ground.I guess in the end I felt like this whole duology didn’t have much of a point or a story. The characters blunder around stubbornly and in the end everyone is pretty much where they started; there isn’t much growth at all.Overall this was a very frustrating read for me. I kept waiting for something to happen, for someone to do something.... I would recommend skipping this duology. There are so many better young adult fantasies out there. Check out The Throne of Glass series by Sarah Maas, the Fire and Thorns series by Rae Carson, or Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch. All of those book are way way more interesting than this duology was.