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    Godsgrave

    Written by Jay Kristoff

    Narrated by Holter Graham

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    A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.

    WINNER OF THE THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL

    Conquer your fear, conquer the world.

    Mia Corvere, destroyer of empires, has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry do not believe she has earned it.

    Her position is precarious, and she's still no closer to exacting revenge for the brutal death of her family. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives of the Red Church itself.

    When it is announced that Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church and sells herself into slavery for a chance to fulfill the promise she made on the day she lost everything.

    Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. But as conspiracies unfold, secrets are revealed and the body count rises within the collegium walls, Mia will be forced to choose between her loyalties and her revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 7, 2017
    ISBN9780008180072
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    Godsgrave
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    Jay Kristoff

    Jay Kristoff is the NEW YORK TIMES and internationally bestselling author of The Lotus War, The Illuminae Files, and The Nevernight Chronicle. He is a winner of five Aurealis Awards, nominee for the David Gemmell Morningstar and Legend awards, named multiple times in the Kirkus and Amazon Best Teen Books lists and published in over thirty-five countries, most of which he has never visited. He is as surprised about all of this as you are.

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    • 4/5
      This book is really good but it's the wrong reader.
    • 5/5
      I felt I was listening to a Gladiator side story until the end came, and the end hit me in the face with a hammer of plot twist. Maws teeth I can't wait to go through the next book.
    • 5/5
      an absolutely brilliant book with so much mystery and magic! the ending is jaw dropping and leaves you with a cliff hanging!
    • 5/5
      The struggle with being a book reviewer is how to convey my feelings about a book without spoilers. Trust me, sometimes the struggle is real ?. With Godsgrave, there was so much going on from the start that not giving anything away was going to be hard. I think I figured out though: It was AMAZING, the end. There you go, spoiler free and everything. (Chuckles deviously) Alright, I am going to give it a go. Godsgrave is the second book in The Nevernight Chronicle series. This is a series that absolutely must be read in order. Godsgrave takes you on an intense ride with action, betrayal, plans within plans, enemies becoming something other, love, and death. Lots and lots of death!Mia Corvere’s quest in life, everything she has ever done since she was orphaned, has been to avenge her familia. She has sacrificed all in the quest for her revenge and it has changed her, hardened her. In Nevernight Mia had to endure hardships she essentially imposed upon herself, she had to prove herself worthy of being an assassin for the Red Church. This time around Mia has an opportunity to balance the scales and finally serve justice for the murder of her family but she must defy the edict of the Red Church that she now serves. She will endure more hardships but her choices will also affect those around her as well.This awareness of how her choices affect others starts to create changes in Mia. Makes her call into question the “rightness” of what she is doing but at the same time she is hell bent on her revenge. It creates a moral dilemma for Mia, something she is very unfamiliar with. As the cost for her revenge goes up so too does the body count. It caused me to find myself loving Mia’s character as well as hating her. I did not like who she was turning into, she had always had a morality about her and I felt like that was being eroded with every choice she made. Once her plans within plans came to fruition though I sighed a big sigh of relief. I was totally back in love with her character because she was bloody brilliant! She walked such a fine line in this story and all along the way I questioned the right of it all. The price just seemed too high.There was quite a romance element in this story but I was not sold on it. It was so wrong considering the role that the character had been cast in previously. Why would the character just change like they did? Made no sense to me, just for the sake of love? I was absolutely waiting for the betrayal because this character was not to be trusted. Then again in this series no one is to be trusted! I was glad for the frenemy’s contributions to the story though because the part they play was really cool and added to the “fun” moments but I also never trusted them at all. Hell, I trust no one in this story because it is a morally grey world. Anyhow, there was no hope for that relationship as far as I was concerned so I was not that invested in it.The ending, the last word in this book and I can say is that I KNEW IT!! I KNEW it, and I hoped for it!! I knew that there had to be more with the character in question because of how everything had gone down in book one. I am so entirely beyond myself psyched to read the next book in this series because I want more of that character. Also, there is the fact this book really answered practically no questions that came to mind from book one, in fact I was left with even more questions this time around. Godsgrave was a lot of pieces to a puzzle coming together, I can start to see the picture but I still need more pieces. Overall, I loved Godsgrave! This is a book and series that I highly recommend.
    • 3/5
      I felt like it was too long. By the end, I didn't feel like I cared for the main character very much and felt like the main romantic relationship was contrived - a situation of love was described only in the language of lust and it wasn't as compelling as the romance of the 1st book. Also, considering the betrayal that their relationship was built on, it felt distasteful. Was glad when it ended. The narrator was annoying as hell but got used to it eventually. The writing was pretty repetitive, even when the author wasn't using it as a style - when the characters spoke, they breathed, growled or whispered.
    • 4/5
      Still interesting but some things get on my nerves so to say?
    • 5/5
      "When all is blood, blood is all."

      That's it, this is the best book I've read this year.

      I have LOVED every passage, sentence, word, breath and even comma in this entire book.
      I flew through it. I wanted to reach the end, but at the same time I didn't want it to end.

      The story once again goes back and forth between two timelines, but this time it's not between Mia's younger years and present one, but between her time as a Gladiatii and what led her there.

      Although the first book had a great plot, I definitely prefer this one. The stakes were much higher, and you can tell it was building up to a far bigger story, but still it felt intimate (if that makes any sense)

      I absolutely LOVE Ash and Mia together, I love their relationship, how they treat each other, how you can feel they bring out the best in one another without undermining any other part

      THE ENDING THOUGH!
      Dear lord that ending!!!!
      I mean, I knew something had to go wrong, but I didn't expect it to be THAT!

      All in all, this was a PHENOMENAL book and I'm so glad I read it.
    • 5/5
      I loved the first book in this series and I love this one as well. All the development of the characters was very good and I loved all of the new characters. The fighting element in this book was very well done in my opinion. The world of this book is based on ancient Rome and the gladiator fights in this book were clearly well researched with magic from the world of this book added in. There were a few plot points in this book that I saw coming, especially with some parts of the ending but still most of the major plot twists or surprises I did not see coming at all and thought it was very interesting. I continue to like the footnotes that add to the world building but I also really appreciated the in-story world building in this book with stuff like how Mia's Darkin power worked. In the developments in characters relationships were very exciting to me. Some relationships develop that I did not expect at all and I really liked that and Mia's changing relations with the other gladiators was fascinating. I was happy with the ending. Obviously, there is one book left in the trilogy so not all the questions are answered but I thought the ending wrapped up enough things to be a satisfying ending on it own. I can't wait to read the last book in the series when it comes out and I'm very happy I don't have to wait long.
    • 5/5
      I can’t say enough about out this story , if you want to see my review- go read my review of Nevernight and exponentially multiply by 100. The only thing I would change is my view of Ash. If I could ever fall in love with a woman -I would fall hard for Ash.
      I aspire to have her wit and sarcasm ( and bravery ).
    • 5/5
      4.50 maaaaybe a 4.75

      At this point, I would read anything Kristoff writes with excitement, even a recipe for a shitty casserole. He knows how to weave the yarn of fantasy with skilled hands. My only complaint was a couple twists met more with a sigh of recognition instead of a gasp of excitement. I am also on the fence about that ending...but I will see how Kristoff handles it in the next book.
    • 5/5
      This second book in Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight Chronicle was quite damaging to the integrity of my poor, frazzled nerves, not to mention my blood pressure: where Nevernight was a rollercoaster ride, Godsgrave ended up being an emotional tsunami, one that flipped me without mercy between excitement and terror, without a single moment of respite. And I enjoyed every second of it.Mia Corvere’s path of vengeance against those who destroyed her family takes a new direction here: her harrowing year as an acolyte of the Red Church turned her into an accomplished assassin, and she proved instrumental in foiling the Empire’s attempt to destroy the Church, thereby gaining her place as a Blade, a killer for hire, the first step into her vendetta against cardinal Duomo and consul Scaeva, the main culprits in the obliteration of the Corvere family. But an unexpected and unforeseeable revelation forces Mia to turn rogue and seek a different track, one that will entail a daring, difficult plan and many brutal, bloody sacrifices.The first part of the novel follows two converging time tracks: the present, where Mia is now committed to her plan, and the recent past, where we see how and why she got there. It’s a fascinating interweaving of timelines and it shows to perfection how this new, even harder and more determined Mia came into being, once she realizes that the Empire is based on far more convoluted and insidious lies than she imagined, and that she should trust nothing and no one.The opportunity to get close enough to Duomo and Scaeva so that she can kill them comes through the Venatus Magni, ferocious gladiatorial games that take place in the days of the convergence of the three suns: the champion of the games is crowned personally by the two co-rulers of the Empire, allowing the winner to get in close proximity to them, without guards or protection. There is a little catch to the scenario, however: gladiatii, or the gladiators who fight in the arena, are all slaves, sold and bought from all over the Empire for that very same purpose, and trained in schools supported by wealthy citizens who compete ferociously for the best fighters and the most skilled teams. So Mia arranges to be sold into slavery (and I will leave to you to discover the hazardous, bloody way she manages that) and be bought by the main gladiatorial school of the Empire, certain that she will rise in the ranks and be chosen to fight in the Magni. Things don’t go completely according to plan, however, and our young assassin finds herself acquired by a rival school, one ruled by the estranged daughter of Mia’s prospective patron, which poses a number of obstacles in her carefully constructed plot, not the least of which being that Domina Leona, her new mistress, occupies what used to be the summer resort of the Corvere, Crow’s Nest, a place whose memories still cut deep into Mia’s soul.Much as the journey that takes Mia to Crow’s Nest and the arena is a fascinating one, the true heart of the story resides in the training she undergoes – a harsh, brutal, bloody affair against which the trials in the Red Church look like children’s play – and in the changes in her attitude and psychological makeup: Mia’s character is mostly founded on her single-minded drive to accomplish the goal she set herself, the willingness to push aside any other consideration so she can attain that goal, but here she seems to lose some of that hardness, showing a few chinks in the armor she wrought around her soul from the moment she was all alone in the world. In the past, no matter the grimness of the situation she found herself in, Mia could still find strength in the awareness of who she was, or used to be – the daughter of an influential family. Now she is a slave, the chattel of an owner who can dispose of her life as she wants, requiring that she fight and bleed – and die, if necessary – for the prestige of her Domina and for the enjoyment of the crowds. And for the first time in her life she is able to see how the “other half” lives, and how injustice in the Empire is not limited to political maneuvering and assassinations in the upper echelons of society.And where in the Red Church the other acolytes were rivals to outshine in accomplishments to gain the favor of the teachers, here among the gladiatii Mia learns the power of loyalty, the bond that comes through shared hardships and dangers: no matter how much she repeats to herself that they are not her friends, that they are all means to an end, she starts to see them as persons, and to care about them – definitely a weakness, from a certain point of view, but also a shift in perspective from the definition of what Mia could do, which was the focus of Book 1, to the definition of who Mia is, which is the focus of Godsgrave, the part of her journey where she learns she has indeed a conscience, or starts to unearth the one she suppressed long ago.Of course, part of the discoveries we make in this novel, one that is packed with twists and turns and unpredictable paradigm shifts, is to find out if this new side of Mia’s character is only a momentary lapse or a new direction: one of the things I learned from this book and its predecessor is that I can never, ever take anything for granted, and that Jay Kristoff simply loves to pull the rug from under his readers’ feet.The characters are of course a big part of the appeal of this book – not only Mia, but old and new faces whose acquaintance we either renew, as is the case of Mercurio or Ashlinn, or we make for the first time, like Mia’s fellow gladiators: the latter especially offer a wide range of personalities, from the boisterous Sidonius (one of my favorites), to the twins Bryn and Byern; from the servant girl Maggot to the house’s champion Furian, whose tendency to holier-than-thou whining did nothing to endear him to me, but still offered some interesting contrast with the other slaves. However, the story is just as important as the people who move through it, and in this respect Godsgrave is a very compulsive read, even more than Nevernight was, and if Mia’s prowess with blades and her seeming invulnerability require some suspension of disbelief, the author presents them in such a way that it’s not an effort at all. Moreover, Kristoff’s choice to move from the confines of the assassins’ school in the Red Church to the completely different venue of gladiatorial games is a winning one, since it shifts what was a somewhat limited focus to a wider slice of Itreyan society. In my review of Nevernight I compared this world to a mix between the Roman Empire and the Venice Republic, while here the former is emphasized not only through the spotlight it throws on gladiatorial games, but because names, customs and situations look as if they were taken straight from the history of ancient Rome. And just like their historical inspiration, the Venatus Magni are a mixture of bloody games and the application of summary justice, wrapped in a packaging of spectator sports that sheds a pitiless light on mob mentality and the ruthlessness of crowds, whose base desires are channeled and tamed through witnessing the carnage of the arena. Panem et circenses, indeed…If I were to find any fault in this second installment of the Nevernight Chronicle it’s because it ended too soon and with a cruel cliffhanger that felt terribly unfair, because – ‘byss and blood! – I was having such fun with it…
    • 5/5
      For those who have not yet read Nevernight, my review for this sequel is simply…. This book was absolutely incredible and completely blew Nevernight out of the water! You need to pick up Nevernight and start this epic journey now to prepare yourself for the release of this kickass sequel due in September.

      For those who have read Nevernight, proceed to my full review below.

      Without a doubt, this book was my #1 most anticipated read of 2017 and it did not disappoint at all! This book took the epicness of Nevernight and multiplied it by a thousand. There were so many intense moments to the point where I was almost constantly sitting on the literal edge of my chair tapping my feet in nervousness. The book starts out going back and forth between Mia’s present day and the past few months after saving the Red Church from total destruction. As a history major, I continue to enjoy the footnotes with little tidbits of background information on certain people, places, or historical events. The past few months sees Mia continuing her role as a blade for the Red Church and on one of her missions, she runs into a couple old friends. In the present, Mia is once again working on her quest to avenger her familia by murdering Consul Julius Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo. All along the way, Mia begins to learn things that will alter her course. There were so many twists and turns! A few of them literally had my mouth gaping open because WHOA, MIND BLOWN! Some new characters were introduced and it didn’t take long for me to feel attached to them. Kristoff broke my heart a few times and I am still reeling. Omg and the cliffhanger ending!!! WHAT! I’m going to need the next book ASAP! There was laughter, anger, sadness, swoons, etc…. full spectrum of emotions while reading this book. I haven’t been in the mood to read anything else after finishing Godsgrave because it was so intense and just grabbed me by the feels!

      I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      A stroke of geniusI just finished the book and, wow, that‘s the mother of all cliffhangers.Just like Nevernight, Godsgrave is a thrilling, witty, simply fantastic read. The plot is compelling, the characters including the narrator relatable and perfectly described, the world fascinating - I could go on for hours, gentlefriends ;)And now I have to wait for like ages to read the third volume.
    • 5/5
      After the dramatic events at the end of Nevernight, Mia Corvere is now working as a Blade in the services of the Church of the Lady of Blessed Murder while pursuing her own agenda, namely to seek revenge for her murdered family at the hands of the grand cardinal and the consul of the Itreyan Republic. Having been forced to change her plans, she enters into playing a long game where she hopes to come face to face with her enemies – if she can survive that long ...Once again the scope and world building of the novel are breathtaking, and if you haven't read the first volume in the series you should definitely do so straight away as the back story is crucial to understanding the motivations that drive Mia in her thirst for revenge. Not as tautly plotted as its predecessor, Godsgrave is nevertheless a thrilling and very violent and bloody story that draws you in despite yourself, and if the numerous twists and cliff hangers at the end of the book don't make your head spin and you demand answers right now, then I fear there's no hope for you.Bring on the final volume, Mr Kristoff!Contains frequent bad language and graphic descriptions of violence and sexual content.(This review was written for Amazon's Vine programme.)