Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1) by Jay Kristoff

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌓 out of 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Synopsis:

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.

Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.

Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?

I've been wanting to read Never night for the longest time which was made worse or better (depending on how you looked at it) by reading Illuminae co-authored by Jay Kristoff. My local library only had the audio book version available so unless you have 20 hours to spare could be it will take you a while to get through the entire book. It did feel as if the book went on and on and I wish that I could have read a physical copy rather than listening. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It was everything that I hoped it would be! 
The author did a wonderful job of capturing who the main character was and why. I enjoyed the glimpses into her past and how it was plain to see the changes that took place within her as she faced trial after trial and loss after loss. I loved Mia! She was both fierce and flawed. She followed her own code. She never did what I expected her to do and surprised me constantly throughout the book. 
There were moments in the book when I was taken out of the story through the explanations of society, religion, etc. I can understand why the explanations were necessary and they did add to the story but I wish that I could have had them in a way that didn't take away from the tone and pacing if the book. Perhaps, if the characters were explaining things to each other or something of that nature then the book would have been better. 
Jay Kristoff was not afraid to spill blood and kill off characters so be warned if you read this that a favorite character of yours may die. This book is not for the faint of heart or those that can't handle some bloodshed which there was plenty of. I would say that it is reminiscent of Hunger Games or Red Rising in the amount of killing. There is never a dull moment in this action-packed book about a girl that is thirsty for revenge.