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I could have done without the romance aspect. Otherwise I really enjoyed it.
I really like this story at first, but I'm kind of turned off by the ending. I think the character just seemed to change too much part way through.
This mushroom soup tastes funny. Angela Slatter has a wonderful, if not flowery, writing style. Reminds me a bit of Jane Austen. I just loved the plot; a girls school where the students are trained in the fine art of assassination via various weapons and poisons. This is the story of one student, Mercia, who isn't all she appears at first, and the groundskeeper/dogsbody Gwern.The writing is quite...umm...dense as you would expect in a short story where a lot has to be created in a small number o...
Wish I had written it! While some have complained that it changes focus, I disagree--it is clear from the beginning that Mercia is not like her 3 classmates. Loved it from beginning to end
2.5 StarsI am getting really tired of stories that have such great premisses _ a school for training brides into being assassins _ and then gets completely altered because of some dude that the main character has just looked upon. It gets tiresome, and honestly? Everyone's doing it. -_-To make things even worse it just completely removes the character strength! She had a purpose. An objective. Now?She's just pinning for some dude and backstabbing people who didn't do anything against her. -_-Unl...
amazing premise, but i was a little disappointed with this one. i mean it's probably my fault that i expected more 'the girls learn poisons together, also they're queer maybe' and less 'the girls do learn poisons, but the main girl doesn't get on with the other girls and then has a thing (??) with a guy'.
This more like 2.5 stars. It begins well, describing a finishing school which is in fact training assassin brides, and which has been infiltrated by the protagonist, a new pupil who is not what she seems and who has a secret mission. Then, Three quarters into the story, she forgets completely about he mission and falls in love. Why give her a mission at all, if it is irrelevant?Why the backstory? Also (SPOILER ALERT), the way she falls in love is completely unconvincing unless she is in fact bei...
‘It’s true! She murdered her own son—her only child!—on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, to wipe out the line and avenge a two-hundred year old slight by the Carews to the Abingdons.’Adia continues, ‘She went to the gallows, head held high, spirit unbowed, for she had done her duty by her family, and her name.’ There are some for whom being evil just comes naturally . . . my mother-in-law, for example. Others need to be taught their skills. Welcome to St. Dymphna's, where girls are schooled...
I love all of Slatter's stories, but in this one I found myself identifying with the protagonist more than is most of her work.A young woman has entered a very special school, masquerading as a bit of a charity student. While most of the students at St. Dymphna's are rich girls whose families want them to have the skills to kill their future husbands over festering feuds, she is purportedly being trained as an assassin-for-hire. But the truth is something other again - she has her own goals and
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This is the story of a young girl being schooled in the art of assassination in a private institution.I did not particularly enjoy this book. Maybe this is due to the fact that this is a sequel to a book that I have not read and I am not familiar with, i.e. Slatter’s Sourdough and Other Stories.
