The nuns reveal her immunity to poison and her ability to talk to spirits as they gave her a choice that directed her path into the royal courts. Ismae learns of a dangerous gifts that Death has blessed her with, and a violent path ahead of her. Mortain convent where she learns to be an assassin in service of the God of Death, Mortain. Ismae escapes from an arranged marriage with the aid of the very hedge priest that sold her mother the poison to abort her with no other option but to join at the St. 14-year-old peasant, Ismae Rienne, is feared and abused by her father and fellow villagers after she refused to succumb to the poison her mother drank to attempt to abort her in the womb, and left her with a large scar down her back. Grave Mercy is set in a fictionalized fifteenth-century Brittany, at a time when the nation was struggling to maintain its independence from France. A fourth book, Courting Darkness, which continues the story of Sybella in France, was published in 2019. The books are referred to as the His Fair Assassin series. A third book, Mortal Heart, which tells the story of a third sister, Annith, was published in 2014. It follows another sister from the Convent of St Mortain, Sybella.

Grave Mercy is the recipient of the Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth of in 2012-2013, and has been well received according to fan reviews.Ī sequel, Dark Triumph, was published in 2013. Grave Mercy is a 2012 young adult fantasy novel by Robin LaFevers.

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