Download Holy Sister Audible Audio Edition Mark Lawrence Heather O'Neill Recorded Books Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 13 hours Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Recorded Books Audible.com Release Date April 9, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07LBRPYKJ

Holy Sister Audible Audio Edition Mark Lawrence Heather O'Neill Recorded Books Books Reviews

• I wanted to like this so much and it is still worth finishing, just underwhelming. With Glass disappearing off screen and Zole just being there. And an emperor who still is off screen and never meets Nona the most important figure in the world. There is little that happens that seems to matter in the present.
  
  With his two previous series Mark has earned a lot of leeway AND there some neat/creative ideas, but it just kinda dribbles to the finish in a pedestrian manner. a whole series about Nona growing up and she only is full status for about 30 pages.
• It is a rare thrill to find an author who can keep your brain challenged, your feels fulfilled and your pulse pounding book after book after book. You know, the ones that make you hold your breath. Or ignore your family. Or get completely lost in another world because the book is so damn good. I am happy to report that I am able to pick up each and every one of Mark Lawrence’s books with the same expectation each time This one will also be epic. The man and his characters and his stories have never let me down.
  
  Written entirely from Nona’s POV this time, the story is broken into two different timelines, three years ago and present day. But first, the prologue takes a few pages to remind us just how freaking kickass Nona is by having her kick some ass in a fighting ring. Lawrence always has the most memorable beginnings.
  
  Holy Sister picks up exactly where Grey Sister ended with the Abbess, Sisters and novices of Sweet Mercy making their escape from the palace. Always keeping her cards close to her habit as she plays the long game, Abbess Glass sends Nona and Zole to the ice with the shipheart.
  
  The story then jumps to present day with Nona preparing to take her final tests to become a Sister. I can’t say much about the present day narrative as it reflects what happened the last three years and some events are incredible twists. Fabulous twists. There are others that just plain broke my heart.
  
  The book weaves it way back and forth, past to present, until the day it connects. Then, there is the most epic battle. It’s bloody. Pulse pounding. Heartbreaking. The Path Walk from some of these women is stunning. And deadly. The writing is captivating. It’s page after page of Nona fighting what can only be described as a multi-layered, perhaps even multidimensional, battle as she walks the Path the Abbess knew she could. It was exciting and thrilling and ultimately exhausting. This is where we are once again reminded
  
  “It’s important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size.”
  
  This is a genius piece of work. It is complex but engaging with well-written characters that you care about, or hate, or hate to care about. It has a wicked sense of humor (hey, it made me laugh during a battle scene). And all the threads, all the pieces, all the clues—everything was in its place by the last page.
  
  This book perfectly completes the story of Nona, the dirty little cage girl, who grow to become a fighter, a loyal friend, a tactician, and a Sister. Can NOT wait for Lawrence's next trilogy!
• the people that have enjoyed this series this far will not be disappointed with this book! It is exceptionally action packed, and it keeps you glued to your favorite reading spot from first to last page. The reason I give this book four instead of five stars might have more with my own preferences than the book itself. I have the same problem with this book that I had with other of Lawrence’s books. There are so many “secret plots” that we don’t really know anything about that are suddenly revealed to us at the end changing everything. Not a problem per se, but when you get the feeling that you have been kept in the dark for the whole book when every motivation have been different than you have been led to believe, it almost feels a bit like Lawrence is trying to wriggle out of a story he don’t know how to solve with substituting it for a different story. I don’t mind it if it is only a little, but sometimes it almost becomes an easy way to get your heroines out of sticky situation. It is almost a bit too easy in a way. It is like “oh you are in trouble? Here take this fragment of forgotten magic that we did not know excisted and magic yourself out of this difficult situation”, or “oh, you think you are dead? No no, this was kind of my plan all along”. Although not so bad as in the broken empire series, I still think it is just a bit too much. Although I really enjoyed this series I think this will be the last series of Lawrence that I read. It is good, but some of Lawrence’s storytelling techniques is just not for me.
• There are enough long, detailed, positive reviews of Holy Sister to be read and I can't think of anything that I could add to them or that would be unique to those reviews.
  
  So, I'll just say that, like Emperor of Thorns in the Broken Empire series and The Wheel of Osheim in The Red Queen's War series, Mark Lawrence has again created another perfect, riveting, revealing, remarkable ending with Holy Sister as he did with those other amazing finales.
  
  I love this series. I am certain that I'll be re-reading the story of Nona a few more times in the future.
• I can’t believe it’s the end. Or is it, one never knows. Mark Lawrence made me fall in love with Nona and her sisters. I’m happy with the ending and sad in some ways. Thank you Mr. Lawrence for a spectacular character.
  
  **Moons might rise and fall, empires wax and wane, even the stars come and go, but there are constants too, and though the story of our kind is ever-changing it is also always the same.**
  
  Happy Reading!
  
  Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
• I went into Holy Sister telling myself that I'd probably be really annoyed if there wasn't somehow a 4th book at the end. There's no way this can be wrapped up in a way that doesn't drive me and a thousand other readers insane. But boy was I wrong. This book tugged at my heartstrings. Whereas the first two books established a connection this third took me on a hell of a ride. Everything is excellent in my opinion, something that I've come to expect from the work of Mark Lawrence. But there's something special in this last work of his. More than any other work, Holy Sister has that "magic" in it. I am happy to say this just might be my favorite book of all time. Certainly in my top 3. Get this book however you can.